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A note on the distortion of a flat-plate boundary layer by free-stream vorticity normal to the plate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

M. E. Goldstein  and
S. J. Leib
M. E. Goldstein
Affiliation:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lewis Research Center, Cleveland OH 44135, USA
S. J. Leib
Affiliation:
Sverdrup Technology, Inc. Lewis Research Center Group, Cleveland, OH 44135, USA
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Abstract

The purpose of this note is to construct a local solution that eliminates a residual velocity discontinuity in the inviscid portion of a solution obtained in a recent paper by Goldstein, Leib & Cowley (1992). This result is of importance because it shows that the solution obtained in that paper is entirely non-singular outside the viscous wall boundary layer and that any singularity in the problem will have to arise in the usual way through a breakdown in the viscous boundary layer.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 248 , March 1993 , pp. 531 - 541
Copyright
© 1993 Cambridge University Press

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