THE LAMINAR-BOUNDARY LAYER WITH LARGE PRESSURE GRADIENT AND SURFACE MASS TRANSFER

Abstract

For large values of the pressure-gradient parameter beta (i.e., highly accelerated flows), the order of the similarity equations governing the laminar boundary layer is reduced by two. Coles has shown that this is a singular perturbation problem for which an inner solution and an outer solution must be obtained. In the paper, inner and outer solutions are presented which include the effects of a power-law temperature-viscosity relation, nonunit Prandtl number, leading-edge sweep, and surface mass transfer. An extremely accurate method is described for estimating skin friction and heat transfer for all positive values of beta. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0657749

Entities

People

  • C. F. Dewey Jr.
  • J. F. Gross

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Boundary Value Problems
  • Corporations
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Free Stream
  • Friction
  • Heat Transfer
  • Laminar Boundary Layer
  • Layers
  • Mach Number
  • Mass Transfer
  • Navier Stokes Equations
  • Pressure Gradients
  • Reynolds Number
  • Skin Friction

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.