Applications of similar solutions for calculation of laminar boundary-layer characteristics in the presence of a pressure gradient.

AIAA Journal ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 799-801 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVIS H. CRAWFORD
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Pressure Gradient ◽  
Laminar Boundary Layer ◽  
Similar Solutions

The Calculation of Heat Transfer Coefficients from Skin Friction Coefficients in the Compressible Laminar Boundary Layer on an Aerofoil

1968 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. E. Luxton
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Pressure Gradient ◽  
Skin Friction ◽  
Laminar Boundary Layer ◽  
Strong Dependence ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Friction Coefficients ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
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SummaryIn this note a relation is established between the correlation parameters obtained by Cohen and Reshotko from similar solutions of the compressible laminar boundary layer, and the Pohlhausen-type pressure gradient parameter used in the approximate methods devised by Luxton and Young. A simple graphical procedure is presented to allow heat transfer coefficients to be obtained from known skin friction coefficients in the presence of a pressure gradient. In view of the restrictions of the similar solutions it cannot be claimeda priorithat the method gives accurate results. It does, however, reflect the strong dependence of the heat-transfer skin-friction relation on the pressure gradient and, by reference to calculated results published previously, it is suggested that the method may give adequate accuracy under quite severe conditions.

Turbine Cascade Flow Control Using a “Wake Filling” Pulsed Plasma Actuator

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Perez-Blanco ◽  
Robert Van Dyken ◽  
Aaron Byerley ◽  
Tom McLaughlin
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Pressure Gradient ◽  
Laminar Boundary Layer ◽  
Separation Bubble ◽  
Adverse Pressure Gradient ◽  
Suction Side ◽  
Plasma Actuator ◽  
Pulsed Plasma ◽  
Power Cost ◽  
Hot Film

Separation bubbles in high-camber blades under part-load conditions have been addressed via continuous and pulsed jets, and also via plasma actuators. Numerous passive techniques have been employed as well. In this type of blades, the laminar boundary layer cannot overcome the adverse pressure gradient arising along the suction side, resulting on a separation bubble. When separation is abated, a common explanation is that kinetic energy added to the laminar boundary layer speeds up its transition to turbulent. In the present study, a plasma actuator installed in the trailing edge (i.e. “wake filling configuration”) of a cascade blade is used to excite the flow in pulsed and continuous ways. The pulsed excitation can be directed to the frequencies of the large coherent structures (LCS) of the flow, as obtained via a hot-film anemometer, or to much higher frequencies present in the suction-side boundary layer, as given in the literature. It is found that pulsed frequencies much higher than that of LCS reduce losses and improve turning angles further than frequencies close to those of LCS. With the plasma actuator 50% on time, good loss abatement is obtained. Larger “on time” values yield improvements, but with decreasing returns. Continuous high-frequency activation results in the largest loss reduction, at increased power cost. The effectiveness of high frequencies may be due to separation abatement via boundary layer excitation into transition, or may simply be due to the creation of a favorable pressure gradient that averts separation as the actuator ejects fluid downstream. Both possibilities are discussed in light of the experimental evidence.

scholarly journals On transonic viscous–inviscid interaction

2002 ◽  
Vol 470 ◽  
pp. 291-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. V. BULDAKOV ◽  
A. I. RUBAN
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Pressure Gradient ◽  
Body Surface ◽  
Inviscid Flow ◽  
Boundary Layer Separation ◽  
Viscous Sublayer ◽  
Interaction Region ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sonic Point ◽  
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The paper is concerned with the interaction between the boundary layer on a smooth body surface and the outer inviscid compressible flow in the vicinity of a sonic point. First, a family of local self-similar solutions of the Kármán–Guderley equation describing the inviscid flow behaviour immediately outside the interaction region is analysed; one of them was found to be suitable for describing the boundary-layer separation. In this solution the pressure has a singularity at the sonic point with the pressure gradient on the body surface being inversely proportional to the cubic root dpw/dx ∼ (−x)−1/3 of the distance (−x) from the sonic point. This pressure gradient causes the boundary layer to interact with the inviscid part of the flow. It is interesting that the skin friction in the boundary layer upstream of the interaction region shows a characteristic logarithmic decay which determines an unusual behaviour of the flow inside the interaction region. This region has a conventional triple-deck structure. To study the interactive flow one has to solve simultaneously the Prandtl boundary-layer equations in the lower deck which occupies a thin viscous sublayer near the body surface and the Kármán–Guderley equations for the upper deck situated in the inviscid flow outside the boundary layer. In this paper a numerical solution of the interaction problem is constructed for the case when the separation region is entirely contained within the viscous sublayer and the inviscid part of the flow remains marginally supersonic. The solution proves to be non-unique, revealing a hysteresis character of the flow in the interaction region.

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