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In the present study, asymmetric supersonic expansion flow produced by an annular conical supersonic nozzle has been studied under static conditions. To understand the details of Reynolds number influence on the backpressure-induced shock–boundary layer interaction, a computational program has been carried out. Particular attention has been paid to the shock physics and characteristics of shock–shock and shock–boundary layer interaction change in the flow field when applied to engines operating in different ambient pressure environments. The identification of this Reynolds number correlated flow behavior changes is important for low supersonic expansion flow in engines, as it is directly attributed to the limits of off-design capability on launcher performance. The obtained results show that Reynolds number has significant influence on flow pattern at low pressure ratio, PR, conditions. When PR grows from 2.00 to 2.10, the most prominent phenomenon is that the separation point on the upper wall keeps moving downstream while the one on the lower wall keeps still. This special flow pattern results in a gradual transition from a Mach reflection to the regular reflection. However, for results at higher pressure ratios than 2.57, the comparison between the predicted shock patterns at the three ambient conditions shows a close one for these higher PR regimes. This suggests that the Reynolds number effect is going to weaken at a higher Mach number flow regime when the flow Reynolds number increases with an increase of the pressure ratio as well as the expansion flow Mach number.
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We wish to acknowledge the support of the NSFC Project (91441205). Besides, the authors would like to thank the Center for High Performance Computing of SJTU for providing the supercomputer π to support this research.
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Ji, Y., He, M. & Liu, H. Reynolds number influence on the backpressure-induced shock–boundary layer interaction in an asymmetric supersonic expansion flow. AS 2, 111–118 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42401-019-00025-x
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