Oscillating stagnation point flow
Abstract
A solution of the Navier-Stokes equations is given for an incompressible stagnation point flow whose magnitude oscillates in time about a constant, non-zero, value (an unsteady Hiemenz flow). Analytic approximations to the solution in the low and high frequency limits are given and compared with the results of numerical integrations. The application of these results to one aspect of the boundary layer receptivity problem is also discussed.
- Publication:
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A
- Pub Date:
- November 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1098/rspa.1982.0153
- Bibcode:
- 1982RSPSA.384..175G
- Keywords:
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- Computational Fluid Dynamics;
- Incompressible Flow;
- Navier-Stokes Equation;
- Oscillating Flow;
- Stagnation Point;
- Boundary Layer Equations;
- Differential Equations;
- Reynolds Number;
- Steady Flow;
- Strouhal Number;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer