The Effects Of Free Stream Turbulence On The Turbulence Structure And Heat Transfer In Zero Pressure Gradient Boundary Layers

In an earlier funded investigation, experimental research was conducted to deterine the influence of free-stream turbulence on turbulent boundary layer heat transfer and mean profile development. The data obtained under this earlier contract indicated that both the skin friction and the heat transfer increased significantly with increased free-stream turbulence level. Under the present investigation, detailed boundary layer turbulence structural data and turbulent heat transfer data were obtained for experimental test conditions and profile locations selected from the earlier test matrix. Numerious measurements assured that the present test conditions (boundary layer development and free-stream turbulence distributions) duplicated those of the earlier contract. The purposes for making these present detailed boundary layer turbulence measurements were: to provide data to which current finite-difference boundary layer turbulence models could be compared, and to generate a data base for the development of new analytical models for bondary layer heat transfer prediction. With the completion of the experimental portion of this investigation, a theoretical effort was made to assess the capability of a finite difference boundary layer computer program, ABLE (Analysis of the Boundary Layer Equations) for predicting the effect of free-stream turbulence on momentum and thermal boundary layers.