Numerical discovery and experimental confirmation of vortex ring generation by microramp vortex generator

An implicitly implemented large eddy simulation (ILES), by using the modified fifth order WENO scheme, is applied to study the flow around the microramp vortex generator (MVG) at Mach 2.5 and Re_θ = 5760. A series of new discoveries on the flow around supersonic MVG have been made by the UTA LES team including source of the momentum deficit, inflection points (surface in 3-D), Kelvin–Helmholtz instability and vortex ring generation. Most of the new discoveries, which were made by the UTA LES team and presented in 2009, were confirmed by experiment conducted by the UTA experiment team in 2010. A new 5-pair-vortex-tube model near the MVG is given based on the ILES observation.