Boundary layer flow on a long thin cylinder
Boundary layer flow on a long thin cylinder
复制标题
细长圆柱体上的边界层流
DOI:
--
复制
发表时间:
2002
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
A. T. Parsons
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
O. Tutty;W. Price;A. T. Parsons
The development of the boundary layer along a long thin cylinder aligned with the flow is considered. Numerical solutions are presented and compared with previous asymptotic results. Very near the leading edge the flow is given by the Blasius solution for a flat plate. However, there is soon a significant deviation from Blasius flow, with a thinner boundary layer and higher wall shear stress. Linear normal mode stability of the flow is investigated. It is found that for Reynolds numbers less than a critical value of 1060 the flow is unconditionally stable. Also, axisymmetric modes are only the fourth least stable modes for this problem, with the first three three-dimensional modes all having a lower critical Reynolds number. Further, for Reynolds numbers above the critical value, the flow is unstable only for a finite distance, and returns to stability sufficiently far downstream.