Generation of Tollmien–Schlichting waves on interactive marginally separated flows

This paper is concerned with the interaction of very-long-wavelength free-stream disturbances with the small but abrupt changes in the mean flow that occur near the minimum-skin-friction point in an interactive marginally separated boundary layer. The source frequency is chosen so that the eigensolutions with that frequency have an 'interactive' structure in the region of marginal separation. The eigensolution wavelength scale must then differ from the lengthscale of the marginal separation, and a composite expansion technique has to be used to obtain the solution. The initial instability wave amplitude turns out to be exponentially small, but eventually dominates the original disturbance owing to its exponential growth. It then begins to decay but ultimately turns into a standard spatially growing Tollmien-Schlichting wave much further downstream.

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