Drag of a finite flat plate
Abstract
Results are presented for the coefficient, increased shear stress, pressure, wake velocity, and displacement thickness at a specific distance from the trailing edge in the equation for the frictional drag at one side of a finite flat plate. The mathematical formulation of the problem is outlined, boundary conditions are established, unbound variables are transformed into bound ones, and the equations are solved by the finite-difference method. The results are found to be in reasonable agreement with previously obtained results.
- Publication:
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Numerical Methods in Fluid Dynamics
- Pub Date:
- 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BFb0019783
- Bibcode:
- 1975LNP....35..423V
- Keywords:
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- Boundary Value Problems;
- Finite Difference Theory;
- Flat Plates;
- Friction Drag;
- Laminar Wakes;
- Viscous Flow;
- Blasius Equation;
- Boundary Conditions;
- Eigenvectors;
- Inviscid Flow;
- Iterative Solution;
- Potential Flow;
- Shear Stress;
- Trailing Edges;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer