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The turbulent boundary layer in a corner

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

G. M. Bragg
G. M. Bragg
Affiliation:
Engineering Department, University of Cambridge Present address: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario.
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Abstract

Turbulent flow along the axis of a 90° corner is considered. Experimental measurements of velocities, wall shear stresses and $\overline{u^{\prime 2}}$, the turbulent normal stress in the streamwise direction, have been made. The data are considered both from the point of view of momentum integral and similarity analyses. A suitable momentum integral equation is easily derived but difficult to use due to the form of the terms which must be measured. Similarity techniques give a series of correlations which describe the flow over a narrow range of Reynolds number for which data are available. There is experimental evidence for secondary currents in this type of flow but their analysis presents considerable difficulty.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , 1 May 1969 , pp. 485 - 503
Copyright
© 1969 Cambridge University Press

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