ABSTRACT
The fully viscous shock layer (FVSL) equations represent a straightforward extension of the thin viscous shock layer (TVSL) model, in which all the second-order boundary layer and all the Euler terms are included, and the entire flowfield is treated in a uniform manner from the body to the shock. The FVSL analyses by Yu. P. Golovachev and F. D. Popov and by Golovachev et al. employ a time-implicit finite-difference scheme of second-order accuracy in space in which the coefficients of the system are written for a point suitably weighted between the neighboring time layers. An important application of the time-marching method is for regularizing a space-marching FVSL procedure in a predominantly supersonic flow region. B. N. Srivastava et al. introduced a method for specifying the initial data and calculated the shock structure via application of the relaxation method, which was adapted from the well-known theory of boundary layer/hypersonic flow interaction.
