A series of experiments have been conducted on an array of bleed holes spanning the width of the CUED supersonic wind tunnel at Mach numbers of 1.8 and 2.5. The wind tunnel was run with varying levels of suction, and the resulting flow structure over the bleed array was subsequently mapped with a Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV) system at a resolution of 0.25 hole diameters or better. The same wind tunnel setup was also simulated using the OVERFLOW Navier-Stokes equation solver. Overall good agreement was found in the definition of the expansion fan and barrier shock pattern produced by flow entering the normal holes, with the production of streamwise vorticity noted in both CFD and experimental studies. The proposed mechanism of vorticity generation is an effect of the barrier shock standing off from the rear edge of each bleed hole, and is predicted by CFD to increase in strength as Mach number increases, as well as when the vorticity is produced by a single hole, rather than an array. Both studies found that vorticity decreases as suction strength is reduced, however the experimental study showed the vortices persist farther downstream than predicted by CFD.