A review of hypersonic boundary layer stability experiments in a quiet mach 6 wind tunnel

28th Fluid Dynamics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages

  Wilkinson, Stephen P ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ATTACK; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYPERSONIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; HYPERSONIC FLOW; STABILITY;

ADVERSE PRESSURE GRADIENT; AFTERBODY; FREE-STREAM; LINEAR STABILITY THEORY; LOW-FREQUENCY; TRANSITION PROCESS; WALL COOLING;

WIND TUNNELS;

EID: 0039660599     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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