Abstract
Effect of local supply of vibrational energy on the stability of a supersonic boundary layer on a plate is studied on the base of two-temperature system of equations for a single-mode vibrationally excited gas. The flight conditions in the atmosphere at an altitude of H = 15 km with a Mach number M = 4.5 were considered. It is shown that a source with a Gaussian power low dispersion profile located near the plate increases the temperature on the plate. When the source is localized at the upper boundary of the boundary layer, a significant area of the flow is heated. For two positions of the local source, neutral curves of two-dimensional temporal disturbances for the I and II Mack modes, as well as their increase increments, are calculated. Data on critical Reynolds numbers Reδ,cr and increment amplitudes were compared with similar data for a perfect gas without a source. It is shown that the source near the plate reduces the stability of the layer, and in the upper position, on the contrary, increases the stability compared to the reference case. The displacement of the laminar-turbulent transition zone under the action of vibrational energy source was estimated using the eN-method. For the upper position of the source, the shift of the beginning of the laminar-turbulent transition zone was 35%. The calculation results allow us to conclude that the local input of vibrational energy can become an effective method for controlling the stability of a supersonic boundary layer.