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Pohlhausen's Method for Three-Dimensional Laminar Boundary Layers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 June 2016
Summary
Wild has extended to three dimensions the von Kármán-Pohlhausen method for the laminar boundary layer flow over a fixed obstacle and used the method for an infinite yawed elliptic cylinder in a stream. In this paper the method is tested in two ways (which may be called full-Pohlhausen and semi-Pohlhausen) for the case of an infinite yawed cylinder when the velocity outside the boundary layer over the surface normal to the generators is of the form U=cxm. The exact solution is known in this case.
A table of the skin friction, displacement thickness and momentum thickness is given for various values of β [=2m/(m + 1)], and the agreement is found to be fairly good for β>0 (accelerated flow) but not so good for β<0 (retarded flow).)
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