SUPERSONIC AND HYPERSONIC SHOCK BOUNDARY-LAYER INTERACTION DATABASE

An assessment is given of existing shock wave/turbulent boundary-layer interaction experiments having sufficient quality to guide turbulence modeling and code validation efforts. Although the focus of this work is hypersonic, experiments at Mach numbers as low as 3 were considered. The principal means of identifying candidate studies was a computerized search of the AIAA Aerospace Database. Several hundred candidate studies were examined and over 100 of these were subjected to a rigorous set of acceptance criteria for inclusion in the database. Nineteen experiments were found to meet these criteria, of which only seven were in the hypersonic regime (M > 5). The backup document for this paper (Settles, G. S., and Dodson, L. J., ''Hypersonic Shock/Boundary-Layer Interaction Database,'' NASA CR 177577, April 1991) contains these data in both tabulated and machine-readable form. Suggestions for future experimental needs in this field are also given.