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In the present paper the problem of hypersonic viscous flow past a semi-infinite flat plate with a sharp leading edge is considered. The study is concerned primarily with the rarefied flow region close enough to the leading edge that there is no longer an inviscid layer but where the shock wave is still thin. The solution which is obtained is shown to approach a wedge-like flow near the leading edge with a straight induced shock wave.
The High Temperature Aspects of Hypersonic Flow is a record of the proceedings of the AGARD-NATO Specialists' Meeting, held at the Technical Centre for Experimental Aerodynamics, Rhode-Saint-Genese, Belgium in April 1962. The book contains the papers presented during the meeting that tackled a broad range of topics in the aspects of hypersonic flow. The subjects covered during the meeting include pressure measurements, interference effects, the use of wind tunnels in aircraft development testing, high temperature gas characteristics, boundary layer research, stability and control and the use of rocket vehicles in flight research. Aerospace engineers and aeronautical engineers will find the book invaluable.
The instability of hypersonic boundary-layer flows over flat plates is considered. The viscosity of the fluid is taken to be governed by Sutherland's law, which gives a much more accurate representation of the temperature dependence of fluid viscosity at hypersonic speeds than Chapmans's approximate linear law; although at lower speeds the temperature variation of the mean state is less pronounced so that the Chapman law can be used with some confidence. Attention is focussed on the so-called vorticity mode of instability of the viscous hypersonic boundary layer. The instability of the hypersonic boundary layer is non-interactive. The vorticity mode of instability of this flow operates on a significantly different lengthscale than that obtained if a Chapman viscosity law is assumed. The growth rate predicted by a linear viscosity law overestimates the size of the growth rate by O (M-sq). Next, the development of the vorticity mode as the wavenumber decreases is described, and it is shown that acoustic modes emerge when the wavenumber has decreased from it's O(1) initial value to O (M to the -3/2 power). (jhd).