The Effect of Non-Equilibrium Condensation on Supersonic Air Flows over Rectangular Cavities

Numerical simulations have been carded out for a supersonic two-dimensional flow over open, rectangular cavities （length-to-depth ratios are L/D = 1.0 and 3.0） in order to investigate the effect of non-equilibrium condensation of moist air on supersonic internal flows around the cavity for the flow Mach number 1.83 at the cavity entrance. In the present computational investigation, a condensing flow was produced by an expansion of moist air in a Laval nozzle. The computational results showed that the upstream traveling compression waves become weaker than those without the condensation. Consequently, the weaker compression waves cannot excite the shear layer strongly and amplitudes of oscillation in the cavity became smaller than those without the condensation. The occurrence of the non-equilibrium condensation in case of L/D = 1.0 affected strongly the amplitude and frequency of oscillation in the cavity compared with L/D = 3.0.