The study of hypersonic boundary layer transition and instability is crucial for the design and performance of high-speed vehicles, such as spacecraft and hypersonic aircraft. At hypersonic speeds ...

The Gas Dynamics Lab at Princeton University is currently taking part in transition studies on elliptic cone models ... utilized to produce previously unobtainable views of the boundary layer. A ...

When it is turbulent (Re > 10^6), separation is delayed (to a point about 20^o past the shoulder ... and it introduces a large disturbance into the boundary layer. This disturbance causes an early ...