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Viscous tails in Hele-Shaw flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

C. J. Wood
C. J. Wood
Affiliation:
Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
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Abstract

An experiment has been performed, using pulsed dye injection on an aerofoil in a Hele-Shaw cell. The purpose was to observe the form of the trailing-edge flow when the Reynolds number was high enough to permit separation and the initiation of a Kutta condition. The experiment provides a successful confirmation of the existence of a ‘viscous tail’ as predicted by Buckmaster (1970) although there is an unexplained quantitative discrepancy.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , 13 April 1971 , pp. 569 - 576
Copyright
© 1971 Cambridge University Press

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References

Buckmaster, J. 1970 J. Fluid Mech. 41, 523.
Riegels, F. 1938 Z. angew. Math. Mech. 18, 95.