Date of Award
January 2015
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics
Department
Aeronautics and Astronautics
First Advisor
Steven P Schneider
Committee Member 1
Steven P Schneider
Committee Member 2
Sally Bane
Committee Member 3
Hermann Fasel
Abstract
Transition of hypersonic boundary layers can be caused by many different instabilities. The current research focuses on the growth and breakdown of second-mode waves. All experiments were performed in the Boeing/AFOSR Mach-6 Quiet Tunnel at Purdue University. The low freestream noise environment at this facility is ideally suited for studying boundary-layer transition at conditions similar to those in flight.
Recommended Citation
Chynoweth, Brandon Charles, "A New Roughness Array for Controlling the Nonlinear Breakdown of Second-Mode Waves at Mach 6" (2015). Open Access Theses. 1173.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_theses/1173