Analysis of active control by surface heating

The excitation of boundary-layer disturbances by active, localized periodic heating of the flow surfaces is investigated analytically. A triple-deck model is used in the matched-asymptotics approach, and the incompressible case with small temperature variations, a linearized 3-deck problem, is considered. This case corresponds to the experimental (water-tunnel) conditions of Liepmann et al. (1982), who demonstrated that the induced disturbances can be used to enhance or suppress the Tollmien-Schlichting waves. Here the energy equation is uncoupled from the momentum and continuity equations to permit definition of the thermal-sublayer temperature profile by superposition of canonical solutions, which are presented in an appendix. A diagram of the 3-deck structure and graphs of calculated results are included.

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