Wall shear stress inference for three-dimensional turbulent boundary-layer velocity profiles
Abstract
Based on flow similarity in the near-wall region of three-dimensional turbulent boundary layers, three methods have been developed for the prediction of the wall shear stress components, their resultant and its direction. The results from all the methods agree with one another and with available experimental results. It is found that the direction of the wall shear stress vector is not the same as the direction of the limiting wall streamline, except for small crossflows. A simplified procedure for estimating skin friction is also given, by which graphical work, as in the Clauser scheme, is eliminated.
- Publication:
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ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics
- Pub Date:
- March 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976ATJAM..43...20C
- Keywords:
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- Shear Stress;
- Three Dimensional Boundary Layer;
- Turbulent Boundary Layer;
- Velocity Distribution;
- Wall Flow;
- Cross Flow;
- Flow Characteristics;
- Laminar Flow;
- Mathematical Models;
- Prediction Analysis Techniques;
- Skin Friction;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer