Abstract
We consider high Reynolds number supersonic flow over a compression ramp in the triple-deck formulation. Previous studies of compression-ramp stability have shown rapid growth of high-frequency disturbances in initial-value computations; however, no physical or numerical origin has yet been identified robustly. By considering linear perturbations to steady compression-ramp solutions, we show that instabilities observed in previous studies do not have a growth rate that is described by the integral eigenrelation of Tutty & Cowley (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 168, 1986, pp. 431–456) for a (long-wave) Rayleigh instability. We solve both the temporal and spatial instability problems in the limit of asymptotically large wavenumber $K$ (or equivalently frequency) and show that the growth rate of the instability remains $o(K)$ , being dominated by higher-order terms in the expansion at moderate ramp angles.
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