Numerical study of STBLI on flexible panels with wall-modeled LES. Hoy, J. F. & Bermejo-Moreno, I. In AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum. AIAA Paper 2021-0250.
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View Video Presentation: https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-0250.vidCoupled fluid structure interaction (FSI) simulations with wall-modeled LES (WMLES) are used to capture the interaction of an oblique shock impinging on the turbulent boundary layer developed along a flexible panel. The simulations replicate prior experiments conducted at the trisonic wind tunnel (TMK) of the Supersonic and Hypersonic Technologies Department at DLR, Cologne. The flow has a freestream Mach number of 3, and an incoming turbulent boundary layer thickness of 4 mm upstream of the interaction. It is impinged by an oblique shock generated by a rotating wedge with a maximum deflection angle of 17.5 degrees, reached approximately 15 milliseconds after starting from a zero wedge angle corresponding to a shock-free panel. Displacement signals over time at different panel locations are compared to the experiments and to a previous FSI numerical wall-resolved large-eddy simulation. The effect of flexibility on the wall pressure as a function of streamwise location and time is assessed, showing a modulation by the panel vibration that affects the full panel streamwise extent. Wall pressure power spectral densities show an elongation of the frequency band associated with flow separation region for the flexible case over the nominal rigid configuration. Additionally, the turbulent boundary layer of the flexible panel takes a longer distance to recover downstream of the oblique shock. The peak contribution of the low frequency motions to the power spectrum is increased for the flexible case. The study of separation bubble dynamics reveals that panel flexibility increases the separation length and volume, but leaves the bubble streamwise centroid nearly unaffected.
@inproceedings{hoy,
	title = {Numerical study of {STBLI} on flexible panels with wall-modeled {LES}},
	abstract = {View Video Presentation: https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-0250.vidCoupled fluid structure interaction (FSI) simulations with wall-modeled LES (WMLES) are used to capture the interaction of an oblique shock impinging on the turbulent boundary layer developed along a flexible panel. The simulations replicate prior experiments conducted at the trisonic wind tunnel (TMK) of the Supersonic and Hypersonic Technologies Department at DLR, Cologne. The flow has a freestream Mach number of 3, and an incoming turbulent boundary layer thickness of 4 mm upstream of the interaction. It is impinged by an oblique shock generated by a rotating wedge with a maximum deflection angle of 17.5 degrees, reached approximately 15 milliseconds after starting from a zero wedge angle corresponding to a shock-free panel. Displacement signals over time at different panel locations are compared to the experiments and to a previous FSI numerical wall-resolved large-eddy simulation. The effect of flexibility on the wall pressure as a function of streamwise location and time is assessed, showing a modulation by the panel vibration that affects the full panel streamwise extent. Wall pressure power spectral densities show an elongation of the frequency band associated with flow separation region for the flexible case over the nominal rigid configuration. Additionally, the turbulent boundary layer of the flexible panel takes a longer distance to recover downstream of the oblique shock. The peak contribution of the low frequency motions to the power spectrum is increased for the flexible case. The study of separation bubble dynamics reveals that panel flexibility increases the separation length and volume, but leaves the bubble streamwise centroid nearly unaffected.},
	urldate = {2023-08-11},
	booktitle = {{AIAA} {Scitech} 2021 {Forum}},
	publisher = {AIAA Paper 2021-0250},
	author = {Hoy, Jonathan F. and Bermejo-Moreno, Ivan},
}

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