Fiscal Year	2010
Division	Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department	Physics
Investigator(s)	Ford, David K.
Sponsor	Office of Naval Research (Navy)
Summary	Investigate possible aerodynamic and optical instabilities created by localized, asymmetric entrainment of air near a source of strong, localized thermal gradients introduced into the boundary layer of supersonic tactical missiles. The effort will develop matched asymptotic expansions of the thermo-continuum mechanical equations of motion connecting heat transport and vorticity production across the boundary layer, intermediate layer and far field (Euler) flow.
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