Supersonic laminar flow on the windward surface of yawed wings of infinite span over a broad range of Reynolds numbers (Q1190905)

In the recent years one made sure that it is impossible to calculate the flow over yawed wings with allowance for viscosity and compressibility within the framework of the theory of a thin (hypersonic) viscous shock layer. This approximation does not give sufficiently accurate values of the pressure distribution on the body downstream, the viscous shear or the heat flux; moreover, the flow over a wedge with a small half-angle, in general, cannot be calculated in this approach. In order to avoid these difficulties, the authors propose a more sophisticated gas dynamic model using the complete equations of the viscous shock layer. This model gives a solution, which is valid over a broad range of Reynolds numbers: from low numbers corresponding to the onset of the continuum flow regime to the high numbers at which the theory of an asymptotically thin boundary layer becomes applicable. Although considerably simpler than the Navier-Stokes equations, the equations of the complete viscous shock layer preserve in the stationary case the elliptic nature of the problem in the subsonic flow zones. Accordingly, the Cauchy problem in the marching coordinate for the viscous shock layer equations is ill-posed along the entire generator of the wing section. To overcome the difficulties due to the elliptic properties of the problem, the authors employ a global iteration method combined with finite-difference approach. The comparison with experimental data demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method.