Turbulent Wake Behind a Self-Propelled Body
Abstract
The wake behind a self-propelled body is studied for laminar and turbulent cases. For the laminar wake, asymptotic solutions are obtained with and without swirl. For the turbulent wake with the eddy-viscosity model, the solution is obtained from the laminar flow solution by transformation that reduces the turbulent-flow equation to the equation for laminar flow. With the mixing-length model for the turbulent shear stress, the far-wake solution becomes that of non-linear eigenvalue problem. These two models yield results that do not agree with experimental results. The far-wake solution is formulated based on a two-equation model for turbulent shear--turbulent energy and dissipation--with an additional assumption of negligible turbulence production from the mean flow.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 28, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADA008417
Entities
People
- Toshi Kubota
Organizations
- California Institute of Technology