Unsteadiness of the shock wave structure in attached and separated compression ramp flows

Wall pressure fluctuations have been measured upstream of the corner-line in several two dimensional, adiabatic, compression ramp flows. The nominal freestream Mach number was 3 and the Reynolds number, based on boundary layer thickness, was 1.4 million. The measurements show that the shockwave structure is unsteady in both separated and attached flows, resulting in a region in which the wall pressure signal is intermittent. Statistical properties of this intermittent region, and of the separated flow, are presented and correlated with results from other studies.

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