Survey of Flight Data for Boundary-Layer Transition at Hypersonic and Supersonic Speeds

Published flight data for boundary-layer transition at hypersonic speeds is surveyed. The survey is limited to measurements reported in the open literature and carried out at hypersonic and high-supersonic speeds, on vehicles for which ablation is believed to be negligable or small. The purpose is to catalog work that may be suitable for validation of flowphysics models and advanced transition-estimation methods such as eN. Brief discussions are presented for each report. Known eN comparisons are also presented.

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