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Reacting flow as an example of a boundary layer under singular external conditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

Raul Conti  and
Milton Van Dyke
Raul Conti
Affiliation:
Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, California
Milton Van Dyke
Affiliation:
Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, California
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Abstract

An inviscid flow with infinite gradients at the wall poses a problem for the accompanying boundary layer that is fundamentally different from the conventional one of bounded gradients. It turns out that in both cases the external gradients do not affect the first-order boundary layer, but the unbounded gradients generate second-order corrections that are of a lower order in Reynolds number than the conventional ones. The present singularity in stagnation-point reacting flow is of an algebraic type, and the boundary-layer corrections that it generates are proportional to non-integral powers of the Reynolds number, with exponents that vanish with the rate of reaction. The present example clarifies such matters as the matching of boundary layer and singular inviscid flow, the structure and decay of the new corrections, and their ranking in comparison with the conventional second-order effects. Numerical computations illustrate the problem and give quantitative results in a few selected cases.

Type
Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , 18 September 1969 , pp. 513 - 535
Copyright
© 1969 Cambridge University Press

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