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The unsteady laminar boundary layer on an axisymmetric body subject to small-amplitude fluctuations in the free-stream velocity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Peter W. Duck
Peter W. Duck
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Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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Abstract

The effect of small-amplitude, time-periodic, free-stream disturbances on an otherwise steady axisymmetric boundary layer on a circular cylinder is considered. Numerical solutions to the problem are presented, and an asymptotic solution to the flow, valid far downstream along the axis of the cylinder is detailed. Particular emphasis is placed on the unsteady eigensolutions that occur far downstream, which turn out to be very different from the analogous planar eigensolutions. These axisymmetric eigensolutions are computed numerically and also are described by asymptotic analyses valid for low and high frequencies of oscillation.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 232 , November 1991 , pp. 415 - 438
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© 1991 Cambridge University Press

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