REGULAR DISTURBANCES IN THE TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER,

Abstract

A theory for traveling-wave disturbances in the fully turbulent boundary layer is developed on the basis of an analogy with laminar viscous flow. The point of view that the flow perturbations are induced by a prescribed wall disturbance is adopted, but the results are basic to studies of the stability of disturbances in a flexible wall and the adjoining flow. The analogy with the laminar flow, which is constructed by averaging over an ensemble of turbulent flows, is complete for the flow of an incompressible fluid over a wall that has no random component of deformation and holds for the first term of an iterative solution in the more general case.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0613569

Entities

People

  • J. D. Mcclure

Organizations

  • Boeing

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Boundary Layer Flow
  • Flow
  • Fluid Flow
  • Laminar Flow
  • Layers
  • Traveling Waves
  • Turbulent Boundary Layer
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Viscous Flow

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.