Steady and Unsteady Boundary-Layer Separation
Steady and Unsteady Boundary-Layer Separation
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稳态和非稳态边界层分离
DOI:
10.1146/annurev.fl.18.010186.001213
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发表时间:
1986
影响因子:
27.7
通讯作者:
F. Smith
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作者:
F. Smith
The inspiring review oflaminar separation by Brown & Stewartson (1969) begins thus: "The phenomenon of separation is one of the most interesting features of the motion of an incompressible fluid past a bluff body at high Reynolds number. Here the main stream, which has hitherto been in close contact with the body, suddenly, and for no obvious reason, breaks away, and downstream a region of eddying flow, which is usually turbulent even if the flow elsewhere is laminar, is set up." These opening lines-which were followed by the above authors' brilliant and timely discourse emphasizing the difficulties associated with separation in classical boundary layers make an apt beginning for the present article on the current state of the art. The main feature, to which Brown & Stewarts on in fact alluded strongly, is that given the failure [due to singularities of the S. Goldstein (1948) type] in classical theory at separation, a fresh nonclassical start is necessary for high-Reynolds-number theory to encompass separating flow. This start was made by Stewartson & Williams (1969), Neiland (1969), and Messiter (1970). Our aim is to go from the significant advances made since 1969 to the recent developments and the possible areas of progress in the near future for the rational theory 'of steady and unsteady separation. The physical and theoretical understanding that can emerge from the study of flow structures at large characteristic Reynolds numbers Re is valuable for many reasons. Three major ones are the helpful comparisons with experiments and numerical results, the foundation such study gives to