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The document discusses the theoretical study of regular reflection of shock waves and their interaction with boundary layers. Regular reflection occurs when a shock wave impinges on a solid boundary at an angle, forming a reflected shock wave. This leads to a complex interaction with the boundary layer. The reflection process involves the formation of reflected shock waves and expansion fans, with the Mach number decreasing across each shock and reflection. Shock and boundary layer interactions are also discussed, including cases where the boundary layer separates ahead of the point of interaction due to a strong shock or abrupt change in surface slope.

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HSA TT

The document discusses the theoretical study of regular reflection of shock waves and their interaction with boundary layers. Regular reflection occurs when a shock wave impinges on a solid boundary at an angle, forming a reflected shock wave. This leads to a complex interaction with the boundary layer. The reflection process involves the formation of reflected shock waves and expansion fans, with the Mach number decreasing across each shock and reflection. Shock and boundary layer interactions are also discussed, including cases where the boundary layer separates ahead of the point of interaction due to a strong shock or abrupt change in surface slope.

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INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL

ENGINEERING

HARINARTHINI AKSHAY
21951A2104
AERO-3A
HIGH SPEED AERODYNAMICS
TOPIC

○ Theoretical study on regular reflection of shock wave, boundary layer interactions


INTRODUCTION

○ A shock wave (also spelled shockwave), or shock, is a type of


propagating disturbance that moves faster than the local
speed of sound in the medium. Like an ordinary wave, a shock
wave carries energy and can propagate through a medium but is
characterized by an abrupt, nearly discontinuous, change in
pressure, temperature, and density of the medium.
○ Regular reflection occurs when a shock wave interacts with a
solid boundary. The study of this interaction is important for
understanding the behavior of high-speed flows. Theoretical
analysis provides insights into the physics behind these
interactions.
In general there is always some angle between the shock and the body with which it interacts.
The algebraic treatment of a shock wave impinging obliquely on an interface of two media is
complicated although principles are straight forward. The problem becomes involved because
of the simultaneous occurrence of a reflected shock.
The more general properties of oblique shock reflection from a rigid wall were studied
carefully both theoretically as well as experimentally, during and after World War II. The
properties are highly significant in the understanding o( damage due to an explosion and in a
number of other military applications. For instance it was found out that head-on or normal
reflection of a shock wave does not necessarily produce the strongest reflected shock wave.
Oblique reflection results often in a stronger reflected shock wave and hence a higher peak
pressure at the reflecting surface than does normal reflection. This air burst effect was utilized
in an attempt to optimize the blast damage radius due to the atomic bomb explosion at
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Reflected shock wave

○ When an object moves faster than the speed of sound, and there is an abrupt decrease in
the flow area, shock waves are generated. Shock waves are very thin regions in the gas
where the gas properties change by a large amount. In many flow problems multiple
shocks are present. The shocks may intersect with each other and with the surfaces
generating them. On this page we present the physics which govern the reflection of a
shock wave from a solid wall and include a Java program that you can use to investigate
this flow problem.
○ Regular reflection occurs when a shock wave impinges on a solid boundary at a certain
angle. It involves the formation of reflected shock waves and expansion fans. The
reflected shock wave redirects the flow, leading to a complex interaction with the
boundary layer.
○ A supersonic flow at Mach number M is flowing from left to right. We will call the free
stream region zone "0" as shown in red. The flow encounters a wedge "a" and generates a
shock wave with the conditions downstream of this shock noted as zone "1". The flow in
zone "1" is parallel to wedge "a" and the conditions are specified by the oblique shock
relations given on another page. The shock wave then strikes a solid wall and reflects
from the wall generating a new shock. The flow downstream of the reflected shock is
denoted as zone "2".
○ Since the flow in zone "1" is parallel to wedge "a", it strikes the solid wall at angle "a" as
shown by the white dashed line. The flow in zone "2" is parallel to the solid wall and the
conditions in zone "2" are given by the oblique shock relations with the upstream
conditions being the conditions in zone "1". The reflected shock will itself reflect from
the wedge producing a "train" of shock waves in the duct formed by the wedge and the
solid wall. Across each shock and refection the Mach number of the flow is decreased.
Eventually, the Mach number in some zone becomes too low to support an oblique shock
and a terminal, normal shock is formed.
Shock waves and boundary layer interactions
○ Interactions between shock waves and boundary layers are of frequent practical
occurrence, but often the configuration of the region of interaction is very complex, and
this makes it difficult to understand the processes involved. To throw light on the matter,
therefore, simplified types of interaction, mostly with what is intended to be two-
dimensional flow, have been studied by many workers. Cases that have received the
greatest attention are
○ (a) the interaction between the boundary layer on a flat plate and a shock wave generated
by a wedge held in the mainstream as shown in the figure. b) the case where the surface
on which the boundary layer is formed has an abrupt change of slope, the surface
upstream of the corner being level and downstream being inclined upwards, though still
flat and (c) the case of a step on a flat wall.
○ If the shock in case (a) is sufficiently strong, boundary-layer separation will take place
well ahead of the point where the shock strikes the boundary layer. Similarly if the
change of surface slope in case (b) is sufficiently large, or the step in case (c) sufficiently
high, separation takes place well ahead of the corner or step. In these circumstances the
flow in the immediate vicinity of separation is virtually independent of the particular
agency—external shock, corner, or step—provoking separation.
○ Thankyou

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