Imperial College London

ProfessorSpencerSherwin

Faculty of EngineeringDepartment of Aeronautics

Head of the Department of Aeronautics
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 5052s.sherwin Website

 
 
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Location

 

318City and Guilds BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Mao:2019,
author = {Mao, X and Zaki, T and Sherwin, S and Blackburn, H},
title = {Bypass transition induced by free-stream noise in flow past a blade cascade},
year = {2019}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - CPAPER
AB - Flow past a NACA 65 blade cascade at Reynolds number 138, 500 is studied through weighted transient growth and Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS). The mechanism of bypass transition on the pressure side around the leading edge observed in a previous work [1] is examined. The weighted optimal initial perturbations have spanwise wavenumber 40π and are amplified via the Orr mechanism. At higher spanwise wavenumber, e.g. 120π, a free-stream optimal initial perturbation, upstream of the leading edge in the form of streamwise vortices, is obtained. In nonlinear evolution, this high-wavenumber optimal perturbation tilts the mean shear and generates spanwise periodic high and low-speed streaks. Then through a nonlinear lift-up mechanism, the low-speed streaks are lifted above the high-speed ones and generate a mean shear with inflectional points. This layout of streaks activates secondary instabilities and both inner and outer instabilities addressed in literature are observed.
AU - Mao,X
AU - Zaki,T
AU - Sherwin,S
AU - Blackburn,H
PY - 2019///
TI - Bypass transition induced by free-stream noise in flow past a blade cascade
ER -