Stability of three-dimensional boundary layers
Stability of three-dimensional boundary layers
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DOI:
10.2514/3.50773
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发表时间:
1979
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影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
A. Nayfeh
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作者:
A. Nayfeh
A theory is developed for the linear stability of three-dimensi onal growing boundary layers. The method of multiple scales is used to derive partial-differential equations describing the temporal and spatial evolution of the complex amplitudes and wavenumbers of the disturbances. In general, these equations are elliptic, unless certain conditions are satisfied. For a monochromatic disturbance, these conditions demand that the ratio of the components of the complex group velocity be real, thereby relating the direction of growth of the disturbance to the disturbance wave angle. For a nongrowing boundary layer, this condition reduces to da/d/3 being real, where a and & are the complex wavenumbers in the streamwise and crosswise directions, in agreement with the result obtained by using the saddle-point method. For a wavepacket, these conditions demand that the components of the complex group velocity be real. In all cases, the evolution equations are reduced to inhomogeneous ordinarydifferential equations along real group velocity directions.