Influence of porous-coating thickness on the stability and transition of flat-plate supersonic boundary layer

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In the present study, we examined, both experimentally and theoretically, the influence of porouscoating thickness on the stability and laminar-turbulent transition of flat-plate supersonic boundary layer at free-stream Mach number M∞ = 2. A qualitative agreement between the data calculated by the linear theory of stability and the experimental data on the transition obtained for models with different porous-coating thicknesses was established. We show that with decreasing (within a certain interval) the porouscoating thickness the boundary layer becomes more stable to perturbations, and the laminar-turbulent transition, more delayed.

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