24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-3.3.4

LAMINAR-TURBULENT TRANSITION CORRELATIONS IN SUPERSONIC / HYPERSONIC FLAT PLATE FLOW

G. A. Simeonides
Hellenic Aerospace Industry, P.O. Box 23, GR-32009 Schimatari, Greece and Dept. Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Univ. Patras, Greece

Keywords: transition, supersonic, hypersonic, flat plate, bluntness

Flat plate transition data in the supersonic and hypersonic flow regimes, is manipulated to provide simple transition prediction formulations. The extensive data set, which comes from a significant number of experiments with finite leading edge thickness models in various wind tunnels, has been previously assembled in a database, and elaborated to reveal the primary correlation parameters.

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