An assessment is given of existing shock wave/turbulent boundary-layer
interaction experiments having sufficient quality to guide turbulence
modeling and code validation efforts. Although the focus of this work
is hypersonic, experiments at Mach numbers as low as 3 were considere
d. The principal means of identifying candidate studies was a computer
ized search of the AIAA Aerospace Database. Several hundred candidate
studies were examined and over 100 of these were subjected to a rigoro
us set of acceptance criteria for inclusion in the database. Nineteen
experiments were found to meet these criteria, of which only seven wer
e in the hypersonic regime (M > 5). The backup document for this paper
(Settles, G. S., and Dodson, L. J., ''Hypersonic Shock/Boundary-Layer
Interaction Database,'' NASA CR 177577, April 1991) contains these da
ta in both tabulated and machine-readable form. Suggestions for future
experimental needs in this field are also given.