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Since the implementation of internal carriage of stores on military aircraft, transonic flows in cavities were put forward as a model problem for validation of CFD methods before design studies of weapon bays can be undertaken. Depending on the free-stream Mach number and the cavity dimensions, the flow inside the cavity can become very unsteady. Below a critical length-to-depth ratio (L/D), the flow has enough energy to span across the cavity opening and a shear layer develops. When the shear layer impacts the downstream cavity corner, acoustical disturbances are generated and propagated upstream, which in turn causes further instabilities at the cavity front and a feedback loop is maintained. The acoustic environment in the cavity is so harsh in these circumstances that the noise level at the cavity rear has been found to approach 170 dB and frequencies near 1 kHz are created. The effect of this unsteady environment on the structural integrity of the contents of the cavity (e.g. stores, avionics, etc.) can be serious. Above the critical L/D ratio, the shear layer no longer has enough energy to span across the cavity and dips into it. Although this does not produce as high noise levels and frequencies as shorter cavities, the differential pressure along the cavity produces large pitching moments making store release difficult. Computational fluid dynamics analysis of cavity flows, based on the Reynolds-Averaged Navier—Stokes equations was only able to capture some of the flow physics present. On the other hand, results obtained with Large-Eddy Simulation or Detached-Eddy Simulation methods fared much better and for the cases computed, quantitative and qualitative agreement with experimental data has been obtained.
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Acknowledgements The financial support of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council through grant EP/C533380/1 is gratefully acknowledged. The authors would like to extend their gratitude to John Ross and Graham Foster of QinetiQ (Bedford) and Trevor Birch of DSTL for providing the experimental data.
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Barakos, G.N., Lawson, S.J., Steijl, R., Nayyar, P. (2009). Assessment of Flow Control Devices for Transonic Cavity Flows Using DES and LES. In: Braza, M., Hourigan, K. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Unsteady Separated Flows and their Control. IUTAM Bookseries, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9898-7_7
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