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On a theory of laminar flow in channels of a certain class

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

L. E. Fraenkel
L. E. Fraenkel
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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge
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This paper is concerned with the steady plane flow of a viscous fluid in symmetrical channels with slowly curving walls. The product of local channel half-width and local wall curvature is bounded by a small parameter ∈. We review the essentials of the formal approximation, in powers of ∈, proposed in (4) and (5); resolve a question, left open there, regarding the existence of the approximate series for the stream function for any value of the Reynolds number and to arbitrary order in ∈ and prove that, under certain restrictions on the Reynolds number and the divergence angle of the channel walls, this formal series is in fact a strict asymptotic expansion (for ∈ → 0) of an exact solution of the Navier–Stokes equations. As a result, the traditional picture of laminar separation, due to Prandtl, emerges as part of the steady flow field predicted by an exact solution that is known explicitly to arbitrary asymptotic order.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 73 , Issue 2 , March 1973 , pp. 361 - 390
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1973

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