Aerodynamic Heating of a Blunted Plate in the Regime of Strong Viscous–Inviscid Interaction

Abstract

The heating of the surface of a blunted plate made of a material with low thermal conductivity is experimentally investigated in a wind tunnel under the strong interaction regime. The flow in the boundary layer on the plate is nonstationary, since the temperature of the plate surface continuously increases during the start-up, and its distribution over the surface is variable. The installation of a wedge in the vicinity of the trailing edge of the plate leads to changes in the area of the perturbed flow and in the temperature distribution on the surface of the plate in front of it up to the leading edge as compared to the case of flow around a plate without a wedge. These changes are explained by the propagation of pressure perturbations caused by the installation of the wedge along the subsonic part of the boundary layer against the flow.