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Boundary-layer receptivity to freestream disturbances

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The boundary-layer receptivity to external acoustic and vortical disturbances is reviewed in this article. But, the authors do not consider the effects of external acoustic or vortic disturbances on the boundary layer.
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The current understanding of boundary-layer receptivity to external acoustic and vortical disturbances is reviewed. Recent advances in theoretical modeling, numerical simulations, and experiments are discussed. It is shown that aspects of the theory have been validated and that the mechanisms by which freestream disturbances provide the initial conditions for unstable waves are better understood. Challenges remain, however, particularly with respect to freestream turbulence

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Stability and transition of three-dimensional boundary layers

TL;DR: The recent progress in three-dimensional boundary-layer stability and transition is reviewed in this paper, focusing on the crossflow instability that leads to transition on swept wings and rotating disks.
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Transition in boundary layers subject to free-stream turbulence

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of high levels of free-stream turbulence on the transition in a Blasius boundary layer is studied by means of direct numerical simulations, where a synthetic turbulent inflow is obtained as superposition of modes of the continuous spectrum of the Orr-Sommerfeld and Squire operators.
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Direct Numerical Simulation on the Receptivity, Instability, and Transition of Hypersonic Boundary Layers

TL;DR: In the 20 years since the review by Kleiser & Zang (1991) on the direct numerical simulation (DNS) of the boundary-layer transition, significant progress has been made on DNS in the hypersonic flow regime and in the spatial DNS approach as discussed by the authors.
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Receptivity of a supersonic boundary layer over a flat plate. Part 1. Wave structures and interactions

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the mechanisms of the receptivity to disturbances of a Mach 4.5 flow over a flat plate by using both direct numerical simulations (DNS) and linear stability theory (LST).
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Transition in Wall-Bounded Flows

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present direct comparisons of experimental results on transition in wall-bounded flows obtained by flow visualizations, hot-film measurement, and particle-image velocimetry, along with a brief mention of relevant theoretical progresses, based on a critical review of about 120 selected publications.
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Boundary Layer Leading Edge Receptivity to Sound at Incidence Angles.

TL;DR: In this article, a spatial solution of the Navier-Stokes equations in vorticity/stream function form in parabolic coordinates was used to investigate the leading-edge receptivity to acoustic waves of two-dimensional parabolic bodies.
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Laminar Boundary-Layer, Sound Receptivity and Control

TL;DR: In this paper, a laminar boundary layer on a flat plate is experimentally studied in the presence of 2-D roughness and freestream sound, and it is shown that the T-S wave amplitude can be less than that of the smooth-surface case downstream from the roughness due to a superposition of unstable waves.
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Oscillating stagnation point flow

TL;DR: In this paper, a solution of the Navier-Stokes equations for an incompressible stagnation point flow whose magnitude oscillates in time about a constant, non-zero, value (an unsteady Hiemenz flow) is given.
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A study of non-parallel and nonlinear effects on the localized receptivity of boundary layers

TL;DR: In this paper, the acoustic receptivity due to localized surface suction in a two-dimensional boundary layer is studied using a finite-Reynolds-number theory and direct numerical simulation of the Navier-Stokes equations.