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Boundary layer over a blunt body at low incidence with circumferential reversed flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

K. C. Wang
Affiliation:
Martin Marietta Laboratories, Baltimore, Maryland 21227

Abstract

This paper investigates the three-dimensional laminar boundary layer over a blunt body (a prolate spheroid) at low incidence and with reversed flow. Results reflecting the general characteristics of such a problem are presented. More significant are the features relating to the circumferential flow reversal. Some of these features confirm our early hypotheses concerning the existence of a reversed region ahead of separation and the role of the zero-cfθ line in the general context of separation in three dimensions. Other features are unexpected, including the distribution of cfμ and the shape of the separation line. Here cfθ and cfμ denote, respectively, the circumferential and meridional components of the skin friction.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1975 Cambridge University Press

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