Abstract
The growth of hypersonic boundary layers over both concave and convex surfaces is described, the strong-viscous-interaction equation due to Cheng et al. (1961) for curved surfaces with sharp leading edges being solved asymptotically for small and large arguments. Both the asymptotic solution for large arguments and a numerical integration predict an oscillatory behaviour of the boundary-layer thickness on concave surfaces. A modification of Cheng's theory, as suggested by Sullivan (1968) and Stollery (1970), is also examined and compared with experimental data reported here. The experiments were conducted in air using a hypersonic gun tunnel under cold wall conditions at M∞ = 12·25. They included measurement of surface pressure, heat-transfer distributions and schlieren studies for concave and convex models.
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