ON THE FLOW PAST A SEMI-INFINITE FLAT PLATE,

Abstract

The Navier-Stokes equations for two-dimensional flow are linearized around a dominant uniform stream velocity. The concept of field modes in fluid mechanics is then applied to the often-treated and well-known problem of viscous incompressible flow over a semi-infinite flat plate fixed in an unbounded uniform stream. One of the results that emerges from this novel treatment of an old problem is that the usual notion of a displacement thickness leads naturally to a displacement boundary beyond which the streamlines of the viscous flow past the flat plate are indistinguishable from the streamlines due to potential flow past this boundary. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0623326

Entities

People

  • Carl Kaplan

Organizations

  • Johns Hopkins University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Displacement
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Incompressible Flow
  • Mechanics
  • Navier Stokes Equations
  • Potential Flow
  • Two Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional Flow
  • Viscous Flow

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.