The interaction of an oblique shock wave with a laminar boundary layer revisited. An experimental and numerical study

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Abstract
An investigation of an oblique shock wave/laminar boundary layer interaction is presented. The Mach number was 2.15, the Reynolds number was 105 and the overall pressure ratio was 1.55. The interation has been demonstrated to be laminar and nominally two-dimensional. Experimental results include pressure distributions on the plate and single component laser-Doppler velocimetry velocity measurements both in the attached and separated regions.The numerical results have been obtained by solving the full compressible Navier-Stokes equations with the implicit approximate factorization algorithm by Beam & Warming (1980). Comparison with experimental data shows good agreement in terms of pressure distributions, positions of separation and reattachment and velocity profiles.