Non-Parallel Acoustic Receptivity of a Blasius Boundary Layer Using an Adjoint Approach

Localized and non-localized acoustic receptivity for a Blasius boundary layer is investigated using the adjoint Parabolized Stability Equations. The scattering of an acoustic wave onto a hump, a rectangular roughness or a wall steady blowing and suction is described. Comparisons with local approaches, triple deck theory, direct numerical simulations and experiments are successfully shown. Non-parallel effects are discussed. For comparable parameters, the non-localized receptivity problem produces amplitudes one order of magnitude larger than for the case of localized receptivity. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.