Double-layer acoustic metasurface for the suppression of the Mack second mode in hypersonic boundary-layer flow
Xudong Tian, Tuo Liu, Tiantian Wang, Jie Zhu, Chih‐Yung Wen
Abstract
An acoustic metasurface consisting of two layers of perforated plates is proposed for suppression of the Mack second mode in hypersonic boundary-layer flow. The upper layer with very tiny holes is permeable to acoustic waves and hardly alters the background hypersonic boundary-layer flow, offering rather low resistive and inductive components of surface acoustic impedance. The bottom layer with large and sparse square holes is attached to a rigid wall surface and forms a periodic array of chambers, each covering multiple holes of the upper layer, which can adjust the impedance phase by working as a capacitive component. Based on a linear stability analysis of hypersonic boundary-layer instability, such an acoustic metasurface satisfying the required surface impedance is designed and numerically investigated. The results show that the metasurface can efficiently suppress the Mack second mode over a relatively wide bandwidth. This work provides an alternative strategy for the design of porous walls for hypersonic boundary-layer stabilization.