Article cited:
Zuo, Feng-Yuan. “Hypersonic Conical Shock-Wave/Turbulent-Boundary-Layer Interaction at
High Reynolds Number.” AIAA Journal, vol. 61, no. 9, 19 June 2023, pp. 3743–3760,
https://doi.org/10.2514/1.j062953.
The article “Hypersonic Conical Shock-Wave/Turbulent-Boundary-Layer Interaction at High
Reynolds Number” was about, as the name indicates, studies the shock-wave/turbulentboundary-layer (SBLI) interaction in a cone at hypersonic velocities and high Reynolds number
using numerical methods with the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) equations with the
objective to determine the effects the wall temperature would have. From what I read from the
article, I understood the concept of a turbulent boundary layer, the shock wave and the
importance of studying it, the connection of the previous two, and the use of RANS. This last
one is mainly because I used the k–omega turbulence model (a commonly-used RANS equations
approximation in computational fluid dynamics) in ANSYS for an internship I had last year.
What I did not fully understand was mainly the more specific details of the RANS equations, like
the actually mathematically-complex stuff.