Boundary layer at a swept stagnation line of semi-infinite extent

1970 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 737-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Libby ◽  
Karl K. Chen

A three-dimensional boundary layer developing along a semi-infinite swept stagnation line from a starting edge and evolving into that associated with such a line of infinite extent is calculated. A series solution useful for assessing the counteracting effects of cross-flow and mass transfer near the starting edge and for providing initial data for a subsequent streamwise, numerical solution is developed. The asymptotic behaviour far from the starting edge is examined and shown to involve only eigenfunction contributions associated with the far upstream flow. However, it is not presently possible to determine the relevant eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. Numerical solutions based on a difference-differential analysis yield the entire development of the boundary layer and indicate the streamwise length required for the case of the boundary layer at an infinite stagnation line to be obtained.

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (20) ◽  
pp. 204702
Author(s):  
Lu Chang-Gen ◽  
Zhu Xiao-Qing ◽  
Shen Lu-Yu

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-78
Author(s):  
S. A. Baranov ◽  
A. F. Kiselev ◽  
A. P. Kuryachii ◽  
D. S. Sboev ◽  
S. N. Tolkachev ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
S.N Brown ◽  
F.T Smith

A theoretical model of the laminar ‘calmed region’ following a three-dimensional turbulent spot within a transitioning two-dimensional boundary layer is formulated and discussed. The flow is taken to be inviscid, and the perturbation mean flow surface streamlines calculated represent disturbances to the basic slip velocity. Available experimental evidence shows a fuller, more stable, streamwise profile in a considerable region trailing the spot, with cross-flow ‘inwash’ towards the line of symmetry. Present results are in qualitative agreement with this evidence.


1993 ◽  
Vol 246 ◽  
pp. 21-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. Goldstein ◽  
S. J. Leib

We consider the effects of a small-amplitude, steady, streamwise vorticity field on the flow over an infinitely thin flat plate in an otherwise uniform stream. We show how the initially linear perturbation, ultimately leads to a small-amplitude but nonlinear cross-flow far downstream from the leading edge. This motion is imposed on the boundary-layer flow and eventually causes the boundary layer to separate. The streamwise velocity profiles within the boundary layer become inflexional in localized spanwise regions just upstream of the separation point. The flow in these regions is therefore susceptible to rapidly growing inviscid instabilities.


2019 ◽  
Vol 486 (6) ◽  
pp. 668-672
Author(s):  
S. A. Baranov ◽  
A. Ph. Kiselev ◽  
I. A. Moralev ◽  
D. S. Sboev ◽  
S. N. Tolkachev ◽  
...  

The results of an experimental study of the effect of dielectric barrier discharge (DBR) actuator on laminar-turbulent transition in a three-dimensional boundary layer under influence of elevated free-stream turbulence are presented. The travelling cross-flow instability modes are dominated in transition in a base configuration. Their characteristics do not depend on a spanwise position. The DBD-actuator that generated stationary cross-flow vortices with the predefined spanwise wavelength when turned on was capable to reduce a turbulent spots production rate in comparison to the base regime.


2010 ◽  
Vol 658 ◽  
pp. 117-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
RALF MESSING ◽  
MARKUS J. KLOKER

Direct numerical simulations are employed to investigate the effects of discrete suction orifices at the wall on the disturbance evolution in laminar three-dimensional boundary-layer flows with favourable pressure gradient. Suction panels with many suction orifices can excite unstable crossflow (CF) modes even if the orifice spacing is smaller than the chordwise/spanwise wavelengths of unstable modes, caused by imperfections in the orifice order or suction strength. It has been found that the most unstable steady vortex mode leads to strong CF vortices that invoke turbulence by secondary instability even on the active suction panel. The deliberate excitation and support of stabilizing vortices that have less than two-thirds of the spanwise wavelength of the most amplified ones – known from the upstream flow deformation or micrometre-sized roughness elements technique – by the orifice order on the panel can secure the desired stabilizing effect of suction and lower the necessary suction amount significantly.


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