ABSTRACT |
Techniques to delay laminar-turbulent transition on the wing, calld laminar-flow control, are important for drag reduction of high-speed civil transports cruising at supersonic speeds. The onset of transition is numerically predicted by computation of a boundary-layer flow, linear stability analysis for the flow and integration of the spatial growth rates obtained by the analysis. Boundary-layer flows used to predict the transition have been generally computed with boundary-layer codes. In this paper, a Navier-Stokes code is constructed for the computation. The supersonic flow around an infinite swept cylinder is computed with three types of grids which have different resolutions. The accuracy of the Navier-Stokes code is tested by comparing velocity and temperature profiles in the boundary layer obtained with these three grids. Furthermore, linear stability analysis for the attachment-line boundary layer is performed. The unstable ranges obtained by the analysis agree well the results of Malik (1998), which confirms the accuracy of the present Navier-Stokes code. |