On the mechanisms of interaction of controlled disturbances in the longitudinal wake region in a supersonic boundary layer on a flat plate

The present study is aimed at searching for mechanisms of wave interaction in a supersonic boundary layer on a flat plate with the flow being distorted by a streamwise disturbance generated on a sharp leading edge by a pair of weak shock waves. The space and time distributions and the frequency-wave spectra of oscillations and their wave characteristics in the linear and weakly nonlinear phases of wave train development in a nonhomogeneous boundary layer under conditions of a fixed power of the local source of controlled disturbances are analyzed. Based on experimental results, possible variants of wave interaction in a supersonic boundary layer on a flat plate in the region of the longitudinal wake generated by an N-wave are proposed.