Experimental study of the effect of a passive porous coating on disturbances in a hypersonic boundary layer 2. Effect of the porous coating location

Abstract

The effect of the location of a passive porous coating on natural disturbances in a hypersonic boundary layer is studied experimentally. The experiments are performed in the flow around a sharp cone aligned at a zero angle of attack with the free-stream Mach number M∞ = 5.8, stagnation temperature T 0 = 370 ± 5 K, and unit Reynolds numbers Re1∞ = 2.6 · 106, 4.6 · 106, 6.6 · 106, and 107 m−1. The wave characteristics of the boundary layer are calculated with the use of the linear stability theory for flow parameters corresponding to experimental values. A comparison of experimental and predicted results shows that the presence of a porous coating in the region where the second mode is unstable leads to reduction of its amplitude at the measurement point, whereas the presence of a porous coating in the region of second mode stability leads to enhancement of the amplitude.