Experimental Study on Jet Blast at Laboratory Scale

The flow field of 3D （three-dimensional） wall-jet is investigated. Jet-blast from airplane is simulated by wall-jet setup using a sonic nozzle at a laboratory scale. Farfield velocity and fluctuation distributions are measured by using X-type hot wire anemometer at four measurement planes. As a result, the flow properties of streamwise component are consistent with data which are obtained in previous researches. The secondary flow is also measured on each measurement plane. Reynolds stresses, v＇v＇ and w＇ w＇, are analyzed from the fluctuation of the secondary flow. The law of similarity is observed in the dimensionless distributions of mean velocity and fluctuation. However, the distributions in nearer field （i.e., in the measurement plane at X/D = 100） tend to disobey the similarity law, especially in the cases of fluctuation. It seems that jet-blast is not fully developed by reaching X/D = 100. The experimental results are compared with computational results which are obtained by CFD （computational fluid dynamics） with SST （shear-stress transport） turbulence model. And it is shown that the results by the simulation with SST turbulence model do not follow the similarity law. The present database of the Reynolds stresses is critically important for development of a new turbulence model of RANS （reynolds-averaged navier-atokes） simulations on wall-jet.

High-speed unsteady flows past two-body configurations

This paper presents a detailed investigation of unsteady supersonic flows around a typical two-body configuration, which consists of a capsule and a canopy. The cases with different trailing distances between the capsule and canopy are simulated. The objective of this study is to examine the detailed effects of trailing distance on the flow fields and analyze the flow physics of the different flow modes around the parachute-like two-body model. The computational results show unsteady pulsating flow fields in the small trailing distance cases and are in reasonable agree- ment with the experimental data. As the trailing distance increases, this unsteady flow mode takes different forms along with the wake/shock and shock/shock interactions, and then gradually fades away and transits to oscillate mode, which is very different from the former. As the trailing distance keeps increasing, only the capsule wake/canopy shock interaction is present in the flow field around the two-body model, which reveals that the unsteady capsule shock/canopy shock interaction is a key mechanism for the pulsation mode.