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Boundary-layer separation at a free streamline. Part 1. Two-dimensional flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

R. C. Ackerberg
R. C. Ackerberg
Affiliation:
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn Graduate Center, Farmingdale, New York
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Abstract

The boundary-layer flow just upstream of the trailing edge of a flat plate is studied when a free streamline is attached to the edge. The separation at the edge occurs with an infinitely favourable pressure gradient and is characterized by a skin friction which is proportional to the inverse eighth power of the distance from the edge. The proportionality factor for the first-order term is independent of the upstream boundary-layer flow. The streamwise velocity profile at separation is non-analytic near the wall Y = 0, and starts with the term $Y^{\frac{2}{3}}$.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , 11 November 1970 , pp. 211 - 225
Copyright
© 1970 Cambridge University Press

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