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A note on boundary-layer collision in a curved pipe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

L. Talbot  and
S. J. Wong
L. Talbot
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 U.S.A.
S. J. Wong
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 U.S.A. Present address: Gas Turbine Department, Brown-Boveri & Co., Baden, Switzerland.
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Abstract

Electrochemical measurements of the local wall shear were made along the inner bend of a curved pipe in the entry region, to examine the nature of the secondary-flow boundary-layer collision. Analysis by Stewartson, Cebeci & Chang (1980) predicts a vanishing of the wall shear at the collision point, but without flow reversal. The experimental results are in good agreement with the analytical predictions upstream of the collision point, and its location appears to be predicted accurately. However, downstream of the collision point agreement is poor.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 122 , September 1982 , pp. 505 - 510
Copyright
© 1982 Cambridge University Press

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