Iterative method for supersonic flow laminar boundary layer interaction in the presence of separation

Abstract

The classical two-dimensional compressible boundary-layer equations supplemented by a relation describing the interaction of boundary layer with external inviscid flow (see, e.g., [1]) are treated as the governing equations in one of the methods to study the viscous-inviscid interaction. It is then necessary in the case of supersonic flow to specify certain downstream boundary conditions for the closure of the governing system, i.e., it is a boundary-value problem (e.g., [2]). The “shooting” technique for parameters at the beginning of the computational region to obtain the solution satisfying such a condition usually requires large computer time since the integral curves are highly sensitive to small changes in upstream boundary conditions. A more effective method is the algorithm of global relaxations of pressure distribution along the entire computational region [1]. A numerical method to compute supersonic interacting boundary layer in the presence of separation is presented in this paper.