@inproceedings{0fa00582a3bf4665af5f7932611f5873,
title = "Instability of high Mach number flows in the presence of high-temperature gas effects",
abstract = "For high-speed flows during re-entry conditions, the chemical reactions in the flow heavily influence the stability properties of boundary-layer flows. The possible presence of shock-induced nonequilibrium in the flow makes it necessary not only to look at equilibrium flows. Instabilities that eventually lead to laminar-turbulent transition in a hypersonic flat-plate boundary layer are investigated by direct numerical simulation of the full unsteady three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with appropriate additions for the chemical source terms and the thermodynamical properties. As examples, the flat-plate boundary-layer flow at M=20 at an altitude of H=50Km is examined as well as the wake flow of a boundary-layer sized object in a M=6.8 boundary-layer.",
author = "Christian Stemmer",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1007/978-90-481-3723-7_63",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789048137220",
series = "IUTAM Bookseries",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "391--396",
booktitle = "7th IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition - Proceedings of the 7th IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition",
note = "7th IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition ; Conference date: 23-06-2009 Through 26-06-2009",
}