Supersonic and hypersonic shock/boundary-layer interaction database

TLDR

The study focuses on hypersonic shock/boundary‑layer interactions but also includes experiments at Mach 3 and above. Candidate studies were identified via a computerized search of the AIAA Aerospace Database, after which several hundred were screened and over 100 were selected using rigorous acceptance criteria for the database. The database contains 19 high‑quality shock/boundary‑layer interaction experiments, of which only seven are truly hypersonic (M > 5), providing a resource for turbulence modeling and code validation.

Abstract

An assessment is given of existing shock wave/tubulent boundary-layer interaction experiments having sufficient quality to guide turbulence modeling and code validation efforts. Although the focus of this work is hypersonic, experiments at Mach numbers as low as 3 were considered. The principal means of identifying candidate studies was a computerized search of the AIAA Aerospace Database. Several hundred candidate studies were examined and over 100 of these were subjected to a rigorous set of acceptance criteria for inclusion in the data-base. Nineteen experiments were found to meet these criteria, of which only seven were in the hypersonic regime (M is greater than 5).