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The paper is devoted to a review of experimental studies of receptivity, linear stability and nonlinear interaction of steady and traveling waves in a 3D boundary layer on a model of a swept wing carried out at the low-turbulence wind-tunnel of ITAM (Novosibirsk) during past several years. All the experiments were conducted at controlled disturbance conditions with generation of steady and traveling instability modes by means of several disturbance sources. At low enough amplitudes of excitation these generators were found to produce the steady cross-flow vortices and traveling cross-flow instability modes respectively. After deep analysis of the experimental data complete sets of stability characteristics of the flow and its receptivity to localized surface vibrations were obtained for various disturbance frequencies, spanwise wavenumbers, and propagation angles. All these characteristics are independent of the properties of the disturbance generators and can be directly compared with stability and receptivity theories without any additional assumptions. The nonlinear interactions of steady and traveling instability waves were also studied at controlled disturbance conditions with simultaneous or separate excitation of these modes. Strong interaction of disturbances leading to transition, with pumping of the energy either to both modes or to the steady vortices, was found and studied.
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Kachanov, Y.S. (1996). Generation, Development and Interaction of Instability Modes in Swept-Wing Boundary Layer. In: Duck, P.W., Hall, P. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Instability and Transition in Three-Dimensional Boundary Layers. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1700-2_12
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