Calculation of the pressure distribution on a right-angled wedge
Abstract
A comparison is made between three models of the two-dimensional flow of an inviscid fluid over a bluff body. The models are the Roshko free-streamline model, the Parkinson and Jandali wake-source model and the Bearman and Fackrell vortex-lattice model. The models are used to predict the surface pressure distribution on the front face of a right-angled wedge for the two symmetrical positions of the wedge, and a comparison is made with the experimental results of Slater. A further comparison is then made of Slater's results for the surface pressure distributions on a wedge of finite thickness with the distributions predicted by the vortex-lattice model, for the wedge at a number of angular positions to the flow.
- Publication:
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Aeronautical Quarterly
- Pub Date:
- August 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982AeQ....33..271B
- Keywords:
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- Bluff Bodies;
- Fluid Mechanics;
- Inviscid Flow;
- Pressure Distribution;
- Two Dimensional Flow;
- Wedge Flow;
- Free Flow;
- Laminar Flow;
- Panel Method (Fluid Dynamics);
- Roshko Prediction;
- Turbulent Flow;
- Vortices;
- Wakes;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer