Solutions of unsteady boundary-layer equations

1964 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. N. Sarma
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Flat Plate ◽  
Steady Motion ◽  
Unsteady Motion ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
Stagnation Flow ◽  
Boundary Layer Equations ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Dimensional Boundary ◽  
Unified Method

AbstractThe unsteady two-dimensional boundary-layer equations, linearized as by Lighthill are studied. A unified method is developed, from which the results for the stagnation flow, the flow along a flat plate, the flow in a converging canal, etc., can be derived as special cases. Solutions are obtained in two systems, one when the main stream is in unsteady motion and the wall is at rest and the other when the main stream is in steady motion and the wall is in an arbitrary motion. The stagnation flow has been done by Glauert and generalized by Watson. The flow along a flat plate and the flow in a converging canal are considered in detail.

Unified theory for the solutions of the unsteady thermal boundary-layer equation

1965 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 809-825 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. N. Sarma
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Flat Plate ◽  
Thermal Boundary Layer ◽  
Boundary Layer Equation ◽  
Steady Motion ◽  
Unsteady Motion ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
Unified Theory ◽  
Boundary Layer Equations ◽  
Special Cases

AbstractThe unsteady two-dimensional thermal boundary-layer equation linearized as by Lighthill is studied. Two different problems are considered mainly, one in Part I and the other in Part II. Part I deals with the solution when the temperature of the main stream is constant and that of the wall is unsteady and Part II when the temperature of the main stream is constant and the heat transfer from the wall is unsteady. Unified methods are developed from which the results for the stagnation flow and the flow along a flat plate, etc., can be derived as special cases. The results of the unsteady velocity boundary-layer equations analysed by Sarma are used and solutions are obtained in two cases, first, when the main stream is in steady motion and the wall is in an arbitrary motion and secondly when the main stream is in unsteady motion and the wall is at rest. The flat plate problem is considered in detail; the results agree with those given by Lighthill and Moore.

The three-dimensional laminar boundary layer on a flat plate

1965 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 587-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Sowerby
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Flat Plate ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
Dimensional Parameter ◽  
Stress Components ◽  
Dimensional Boundary ◽  
Layer Flow ◽  
Limiting Streamlines

A series expansion is derived for the three-dimensional boundary-layer flow over a flat plate, arising from a general main-stream flow over the plate. The series involved are calculated as far as terms of order ξ2, where ξ is a non-dimensional parameter defining distance measured from the leading edge of the plate. The results are applied to an example in which the main stream arises from the disturbance of a uniform stream by a circular cylinder mounted downstream from the leading edge of the plate, the axis of the cylinder being normal to the plate. Calculations are made for shear stress components on the plate, and for the deviation of direction of the limiting streamlines from those in the main stream.

Steady flow in the laminar boundary layer of a gas

1949 ◽  
Vol 199 (1059) ◽  
pp. 533-558 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Prandtl Number ◽  
Incompressible Fluid ◽  
Flat Plate ◽  
Horizontal Cylinder ◽  
Vertical Surface ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
Stream Flows ◽  
Boundary Layer Equations ◽  
Plane Jets

If the boundary-layer equations for a gas are transformed by Mises’s transformation, as was done by Kármán & Tsien for the flow along a flat plate of a gas with unit Prandtl number σ, the computation of solutions is simplified, and use may be made of previously computed solutions for an incompressible fluid. For any value of the Prandtl number, and any variation of the viscosity μ with the temperature T , after the method has been applied to flow along a flat plate (a problem otherwise treated by Crocco), the flow near the forward stagnation point of a cylinder is calculated with dissipation neglected, both with the effect of gravity on the flow neglected and with this effect retained for vertical flow past a horizontal cylinder. The approximations involved by the neglect of gravity are considered generally, and the cross-drift is calculated when a horizontal stream flows past a vertical surface. When σ =1, μ∞ T , and the boundary is heat-insulated, it is shown that the boundary-layer equations for a gas may be made identical, whatever be the main stream, with the boundary-layer equations for an incompressible fluid with a certain, determinable, main stream. The method is also applied to free convection at a flat plate (with the heat of dissipation and the variation with altitude of the state of the surrounding fluid neglected) and to laminar flow in plane wakes, but for plane jets the conditions σ =1, μ∞ T , previously imposed by Howarth,are also imposed here in order to obtain simple solutions.

Jeffery-Hamel boundary-layer flows over curved beds

1988 ◽  
Vol 186 ◽  
pp. 583-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. M. Eagles
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Flow Field ◽  
Film Flow ◽  
Local Approximation ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
Streamwise Direction ◽  
Boundary Layer Flows ◽  
Boundary Layer Equations ◽  
First Approximation ◽  
Local Value

We find certain exact solutions of Jeffery-Hamel type for the boundary-layer equations for film flow over certain beds. If β is the angle of the bed with the horizontal and S is the arclength these beds have equation sin β = (const.)S−3, and allow a description of flows on concave and convex beds. The velocity profiles are markedly different from the semi-Poiseuille flow on a plane bed.We also find a class of beds in which the Jeffery-Hamel flows appear as a first approximation throughout the flow field, which is infinite in streamwise extent. Since the parameter γ specifying the Jeffery-Hamel flow varies in the streamwise direction this allows a description of flows over curved beds which are slowly varying, as described in the theory, in such a way that the local approximation is that Jeffery-Hamel flow with the local value of γ. This allows the description of flows with separation and reattachment of the main stream in some cases.

The equation of similar profiles in boundary layer theory with strong blowing

1966 ◽  
Vol 294 (1437) ◽  
pp. 208-234 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Skin Friction ◽  
Main Part ◽  
Similarity Solutions ◽  
Boundary Layer Theory ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
Outer Solution ◽  
Boundary Layer Equations ◽  
Displacement Thickness ◽  
Complicated Form

This paper contains a study of the similarity solutions of the boundary layer equations for the case of strong blowing through a porous surface. The main part of the boundary layer is thick and almost inviscid in these conditions, but there is a thin viscous region where the boundary layer merges into the main stream. The asymptotic solutions appropriate to these two regions are matched to one another when the blowing velocity is large. The skin friction is found from the inner solution, which is independent of the outer solution, but the displacement thickness involves both solutions and is of more complicated form.

scholarly journals Analysis of a Chemically Reactive Mhd Flow With Heat and Mass Transfer Over a Permeable Surface

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
O.J. Fenuga ◽  
S.J. Aroloye ◽  
A.O. Popoola
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Heat And Mass Transfer ◽  
Mhd Flow ◽  
Skin Friction Coefficient ◽  
Permeable Surface ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
Boundary Layer Equations ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Momentum Boundary Layer

Abstract This paper investigates a chemically reactive Magnetohydrodynamics fluid flow with heat and mass transfer over a permeable surface taking into consideration the buoyancy force, injection/suction, heat source/sink and thermal radiation. The governing momentum, energy and concentration balance equations are transformed into a set of ordinary differential equations by method of similarity transformation and solved numerically by Runge- Kutta method based on Shooting technique. The influence of various pertinent parameters on the velocity, temperature, concentration fields are discussed graphically. Comparison of this work with previously published works on special cases of the problem was carried out and the results are in excellent agreement. Results also show that the thermo physical parameters in the momentum boundary layer equations increase the skin friction coefficient but decrease the momentum boundary layer. Fluid suction/injection and Prandtl number increase the rate of heat transfer. The order of chemical reaction is quite significant and there is a faster rate of mass transfer when the reaction rate and Schmidt number are increased.

scholarly journals Simultaneous Free Convection and Heat Generation on a Horizontal Isothermal Circular Cylinder

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sajjad Sedighi ◽  
Mohammad Saeed Aghighi
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Nusselt Number ◽  
Heat Generation ◽  
Heat Rate ◽  
Horizontal Cylinder ◽  
Surface Shear Stress ◽  
Surface Shear ◽  
Boundary Layer Equations ◽  
Linear Partial Differential Equations ◽  
Dimensional Boundary

<p class="zhengwen"><span lang="EN-GB">The linear boundary layer of the free flow around a circular horizontal cylinder with uniform surface temperature in the presence of heat generation was studied. Upon obtaining the non-dimensional boundary layer equations, the Runge-Kutta series method was used to solve the non-linear partial differential equations numerically. The surface shear stress results and surface heat rate were subsequently obtained in terms of the internal shell friction and the local Nusselt number respectively. The following heat generation parameters (C) were selected:  0.0, 0.2, 0.5, 0.8, and 1.0. The following results were obtained: 1) increasing C led to a corresponding increase u, v , VM , and θ , 2) Increasing i led to a corresponding increase in u, v , and VM, and 3) increasing C increased velocity variations and, naturally, the value of Cf, and 4) increasing i from i=0 to i=100 led to a decrease in the Nusselt number (Nu). </span></p>

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