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A defect stream function formulation for compressible turbulent boundary layersProgress to date on the development of a method for turbulent, wall-bounded flow which uses the defect stream function formulation in the outer layer and an analytic law of the wall and wake formulation in the inner region is reviewed. This two-formulation approach avoids the need to computationally resolve the high-gradient inner layer. One of the most appealing recent developments is the transformation of the compressible governing equation for the defect stream function into a linear, second-order differential equation which has analytic solutions for many problems of practical interest. Numerical and analytic results for incompressible and compressible flows are shown to be in excellent agreement with experimental results. In this paper the two-formulation approach is applied to primitive-variable computations. Excellent comparisons with experiment are presented for two compressible flat plate flows.
Document ID
19920061911
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Proceedings
Authors
Barnwell, Richard W.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Wahls, Richard A.
(Vigyan, Inc. Hampton, VA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 15, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1990
Subject Category
Fluid Mechanics And Heat Transfer
Accession Number
92A44535
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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