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Turbulence and Transition in Supersonic and Hypersonic Flows explains how to understand and mathematically model these phenomena, with an emphasis on the unique challenges and features that the compressibility of the fluid introduces. This timely book responds to an increase in research interest in this topic, explaining how to use the latest numerical methods as well as providing important background theory. It covers both the problem of how a laminar boundary layer transitions to turbulence in the supersonic and hypersonic regime and the problem of how compressibility of a fluid affects turbulence.
Compressible flows are important in many areas of engineering, including external aerodynamics, internal flows in propulsion and power generation applications, flows in supercritical fluids, and many others.
List of contents
1. Introduction and overview of supersonic and hypersonic flows
2. Fundamentals of boundary layer instability theory and transition mechanisms
3. Multi-dimensional stability analysis of supersonic and hypersonic boundary layers
4. Receptivity of hypersonic boundary layers
5. Parabolized stability equations for hypersonic boundary layers
6. Breakdown to turbulence and DNS of hypersonic boundary layers
7. Transient growth and input/output analysis
8. Isotropic turbulence and its interaction with shock waves
9. Compressible turbulent shear layers
10. Wall-bounded compressible turbulent flows
11. Shock-wave/boundary-layer interactions
12. Jet noise
13. Turbulence modelling in compressible flows
About the author
Johan Larsson is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland where he works on multiple problems in the field of computational turbulence including wall-modeling for large eddy simulation, grid-adaptation for turbulence-resolving simulations, the physics of high-speed turbulent flows, and uncertainty quantification for turbulence problems. He earned his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2006, and then worked at the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University as a postdoctoral fellow and Research Associate for 6 years before joining the University of Maryland in 2012.Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California, CA, USA
