A free shear layer prediction of the turbulent wake of a flat plate towed below a free surface
Abstract
The turbulence modeled, parabolic Navier-Stokes equations are used to predict the wake of a flat plate towed below a free surface. Prandtl's free shear layer approximation is employed to represent the turbulent kinematic viscosity. The agreement between the predicted and measured velocity profiles is found to be excellent.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- December 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984STIN...8518293S
- Keywords:
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- Flat Plates;
- Kinematics;
- Navier-Stokes Equation;
- Predictions;
- Shear Layers;
- Shear Properties;
- Surfaces;
- Turbulence;
- Turbulent Wakes;
- Approximation;
- Escape Velocity;
- Fatigue Tests;
- Prediction Analysis Techniques;
- Towed Bodies;
- Viscosity;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer