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Steady flow past non-uniform wire grids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

J. H. McCarthy
J. H. McCarthy
Affiliation:
Hydromechanics Laboratory, David Taylor Model Basin, Washington
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Abstract

A solution is obtained for steady, moderately sheared, three-dimensional flow past a wire grid of arbitrary resistance distribution which is placed normal to the axis of a duct of arbitrary but constant cross-section. The formulation presented is an extension of those given by Owen & Zienkiewicz (1957) and Elder (1959) for weakly shared, two-dimensional flow past wire grids. Unlike these earlier formulations, however, in the present study the equations of motion are solved without placing restrictions on the magnitude of variation of resistance across the grid. The resulting solution, taking account of streamline deflexions, is verified experimentally for moderately sheared flow past three grids constructed to produce three widely differing velocity distributions in a water tunnel of circular cross-section.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , August 1964 , pp. 491 - 512
Copyright
© 1964 Cambridge University Press

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