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Transonic buffet on a supercritical aerofoil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

B. H. K. Lee
B. H. K. Lee*
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National Aeronautical EstablishmentNational Research Council, Canada
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The buffet characteristics of a supercritical aerofoil were investigated in the High Reynolds Number Two-Dimensional Test Facility of the National Aeronautical Establishment (NAE). The test was performed quite deep into the buffet régime. The buffet onset boundary was determined from the divergence of the unsteady balance normal force. Steady and unsteady pressure measurements were obtained for shock-induced separation with reattachment as well as fully separated flows. For flow conditions where discrete shock wave oscillations occurred, ensemble-averaging of the unsteady pressures determined the propagation velocity of the pressure wave induced by periodic shock motion. A model of the self-sustained oscillatory shock motion due to shock-boundary layer interaction was formulated. Broad-band cross-correlations of the pressure field determined the downstream convection velocities of the turbulent eddies of separated flows.

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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 94 , Issue 935 , May 1990 , pp. 143 - 152
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1990 

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