Receptivity of high-speed boundary layer on a flat plate at angles of attack: entropy and vorticity waves.

In the paper (Theoret Comput Fluid Dyn 36:705–722, 2022), we analyzed acoustic receptivity of the boundary layer on a flat plate in Mach 6 flow at various angles of attack (AoA). It was shown that slow and fast acoustic waves passing through: a bow shock at AoA = - 5 ∘ , a weak shock induced by the viscous–inviscid interaction at AoA = 0 ∘ , or an expansion fan at AoA = 5 ∘ , excite dominant modes F and S in a small vicinity of the plate leading edge. The present paper extends this analysis to the cases of receptivity to entropy and vorticity waves. Similar to the case of acoustic receptivity, modes F and S of about equal amplitude are excited in a small vicinity of the plate leading edge. These modes propagate downstream in accord with the two-mode approximation model accounting for the mean-flow nonparallel effects and the intermodal exchange mechanism. Cross-comparisons of the initial amplitudes of excited modes help to evaluate the relative role of acoustic, entropy and vorticity waves in the second-mode dominated transition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]