Pressure-Gradient Effects on Hypersonic Turbulent Skin-Friction and Boundary-Layer Profiles

AIAA Journal ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 1141-1142 ◽  
Author(s):  
EDWARD J. HOPKINS ◽  
EARL R. KEENER
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Pressure Gradient ◽  
Skin Friction ◽  
Gradient Effects

The accelerated fully rough turbulent boundary layer

1977 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 507-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh W. Coleman ◽  
Robert J. Moffat ◽  
William M. Kays
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Shear Stress ◽  
Turbulent Boundary Layer ◽  
Pressure Gradient ◽  
Stress Tensor ◽  
Skin Friction ◽  
Shape Factor ◽  
Reynolds Shear Stress ◽  
Smooth Wall ◽  
Mean Velocity

The behaviour of a fully rough turbulent boundary layer subjected to favourable pressure gradients both with and without blowing was investigated experimentally using a porous test surface composed of densely packed spheres of uniform size. Measurements of profiles of mean velocity and the components of the Reynolds-stress tensor are reported for both unblown and blown layers. Skin-friction coefficients were determined from measurements of the Reynolds shear stress and mean velocity.An appropriate acceleration parameterKrfor fully rough layers is defined which is dependent on a characteristic roughness dimension but independent of molecular viscosity. For a constant blowing fractionFgreater than or equal to zero, the fully rough turbulent boundary layer reaches an equilibrium state whenKris held constant. Profiles of the mean velocity and the components of the Reynolds-stress tensor are then similar in the flow direction and the skin-friction coefficient, momentum thickness, boundary-layer shape factor and the Clauser shape factor and pressure-gradient parameter all become constant.Acceleration of a fully rough layer decreases the normalized turbulent kinetic energy and makes the turbulence field much less isotropic in the inner region (forFequal to zero) compared with zero-pressure-gradient fully rough layers. The values of the Reynolds-shear-stress correlation coefficients, however, are unaffected by acceleration or blowing and are identical with values previously reported for smooth-wall and zero-pressure-gradient rough-wall flows. Increasing values of the roughness Reynolds number with acceleration indicate that the fully rough layer does not tend towards the transitionally rough or smooth-wall state when accelerated.

The Effects of Small Changes of Prandtl Number and the Viscosity-Temperature Index on Skin Friction

1964 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 392-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. D. Young
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Prandtl Number ◽  
Pressure Gradient ◽  
Skin Friction ◽  
Laminar Boundary Layer ◽  
Wall Temperature ◽  
External Pressure ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
Pressure Gradients ◽  
Temperature Index

SummaryThe analytic simplifications in boundary-layer analysis that result from the assumptions that the Prandtl number σ and the viscosity-temperature index ω are unity make it desirable to be able to assess the effects of the departures of the actual values of these parameters from unity. In this paper only the effects on skin friction are considered. Formulae of acceptable validity and wide application are first used to produce generalised curves for these effects for given main-stream Mach numbers and wall temperature conditions for the case of zero external pressure gradient for both laminar and turbulent boundary layers (Figs. 1 and 2).A number of calculated results for the laminar boundary layer with favourable and adverse pressure gradients is then analysed (Figs. 3, 4 and 5) and it is shown that these results are consistent with the assumption that, for a given wall temperature, the effects of small changes of σ and ω on skin friction are independent of the external gradient, so that the appropriate curves of Figs. 1 and 2 apply. Where the change of a- is associated with a change of wall temperature (e.g. if the heat transfer is specified as zero) then the interaction between pressure gradient and this temperature change can be significant in its effects on skin friction for the laminar boundary layer and can only be assessed if the effects of changes of wall temperature with constant σ and ω have been separately determined for the pressure distribution considered. It is inferred that in all cases, except with large adverse pressure gradients and imminent separation, the effects of changes of ω and σ for the turbulent boundary layer are reliably predicted by the zero pressure gradient curves of Figs. 1 and 2 and the effect of any associated change of wall temperature can then be reliably inferred from the zero pressure gradient formula (equation (15)) in the absence of more specific calculations covering a range of wall temperatures.

Smooth and Rough Turbulent Boundary Layers: A Look at Skin Friction, Pressure Gradient and Roughness

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine A. Newhall ◽  
Raul Bayoan Cal ◽  
Brian Brzek ◽  
Gunnar Johansson ◽  
Luciano Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Pressure Gradient ◽  
Skin Friction ◽  
Boundary Layers ◽  
Rough Surfaces ◽  
Boundary Layer Equation ◽  
Roughness Parameter ◽  
Surface Boundary ◽  
Favorable Pressure Gradient ◽  
Momentum Integral

The skin friction for a turbulent boundary layer can be measured and calculated in several ways with varying degrees of accuracy. In particular, the methods of the velocity gradient at the wall, the integrated boundary layer equation and the momentum integral equation are evaluated for both smooth and rough surface boundary layers. These methods are compared to the oil film interferometry technique measurements for the case of smooth surface flows. The integrated boundary layer equation is found to be relatively reliable, and the values computed with this technique are used to investigate the effect of increasing external favorable pressure gradient for both smooth and rough surfaces, and increasing roughness parameter for the rough surfaces.

Experimental Investigation of Turbulent Boundary Layers Under Favorable Pressure Gradient

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pranav Joshi ◽  
Joseph Katz
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Friction Coefficient ◽  
Pressure Gradient ◽  
Skin Friction ◽  
Velocity Profiles ◽  
Skin Friction Coefficient ◽  
Mean Velocity ◽  
Freestream Velocity ◽  
Favorable Pressure Gradient ◽  
The Mean

The goal of this research is to study the effect of favorable pressure gradient (FPG) on the near wall structures of a turbulent boundary layer on a smooth wall. 2D-PIV measurements have been performed in a sink flow, initially at a coarse resolution, to characterize the development of the mean flow and (under resolved) Reynolds stresses. Lack of self-similarity of mean velocity profiles shows that the boundary layer does not attain the sink flow equilibrium. In the initial phase of acceleration, the acceleration parameter, K = v/U2dU/dx, increases from zero to 0.575×10−6, skin friction coefficient decreases and mean velocity profiles show a log region, but lack universality. Further downstream, K remains constant, skin friction coefficient increases and the mean velocity profiles show a second log region away from the wall. In the initial part of the FPG region, all the Reynolds stress components decrease over the entire boundary layer. In the latter phase, they continue to decrease in the middle of the boundary layer, and increase significantly close to the wall (below y∼0.15δ), where they collapse when normalized with the local freestream velocity. Turbulence production and wallnormal transport, scaled with outer units, show self-similar profiles close to the wall in the constant K region. Spanwise-streamwise plane data shows evidence of low speed streaks in the log layer, with widths scaling with the boundary layer thickness.

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 ◽  
Similar Solutions

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.

The magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer in the presence of a pressure gradient

1965 ◽  
Vol 287 (1408) ◽  
pp. 123-141 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Pressure Gradient ◽  
Skin Friction ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
Logarithmic Term ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Special Case ◽  
Conducting Fluids

The present paper is concerned with the study of the two-dimensional, magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer, in steady, incompressible flow, under the influence of an external magnetodynamic pressure gradient (characterized by B ) proportional to some power of distance along the boundary. The problem, which has also been considered by Davies (1963), may be regarded as that of extending to conducting fluids the solutions of Falkner and Skan well known in the theory of non-conducting fluids, and here again the ‘similarity’ assumption enables the differential equations to be written with but one independent variable. Solutions of these equations are sought for the cases when e, the ratio of diffusivities (viscous to magnetic), has small or large values. Hence the layers adjacent to the surface in which the diffusion of vorticity and electric current is important have thicknesses which, although both small compared with a typical streamwise length, are of different orders of magnitude. Physically the two cases correspond to fluids whose electric conductivities are sufficiently small or large. Series expansions in e , in each layer, are assumed and the form of the series, as well as boundary conditions satisfied by their coefficients, are determined from ‘matching’ the series in the two layers. The method is equivalent to that used by Glauert (1961, 1962) who, in the former paper, treated the special case to which the present problem reduces when β = 0. For this case, when e < 1, terms of 0 ( e In e ) must be included in the series but the present analysis shows that that is the only case where the ‘matching' requires this logarithmic term; the presence of a pressure gradient enables the ‘matching' to be achieved with purely algebraic dependence on e at least up to terms of O ( e ). For large e logarithmic terms are present (of O ( e -1 In e )) and the results include those of Glauert (1961) showing no distinctive features. Throughout, the magnetic field parameter S (ratio of magnetic and dynamic pressures in the main stream) must be restricted so that 1 — S is not small. To obtain ‘physically acceptable' solutions when the pressure gradient is adverse, further criteria, discussed by Stewartson (1954), may be invoked. Otherwise, the solutions are non-unique and some remarks are made on the effect of this non-uniqueness on the ‘matching’. Results, in the form of series for the skin friction and field intensity at the wall, indicate a reduction of skin friction with increase of magnetic field.

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