Boundary Layers, Separation, and Drag

This section covers lectures 21-23.

Readings

Textbooks

Reading in: Amazon logo Panton, Ronald L. Incompressible Flow. 4th ed. Wiley, 2013. ISBN: 9781118013434. [Preview with Google Books]

  • Chapter 20: Boundary Layers
    • 20.1: Blasius Flow ever a Flat Plate
    • 20.2: Displacement Thickness
    • 20.3: Von Kármán Momentum Integral
    • 20.4: Von Kármán-Pohlhausen Approximate Method
    • 20.5: Falkner-Skan Similarity Solutions
    • 20.6: Arbitrary Two-Dimensional Lay: Crank-Nicolson Difference Method

Reading in: Amazon logo Kundu, Pijush K., and Ira M. Cohen. Fluid Mechanics. 6th ed. Academic Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780124059351.

  • Chapter 9: Boundary Layers and Related Topics
    • 9.1: Introduction
    • 9.2: Boundary-Layer Thickness Definitions
    • 9.3: Boundary-Layer on a Flat Plate: Blasius Solution
    • 9.4: Falkner-Skan Similarity Solutions of the Laminar Boundary-Layer Equations
    • 9.5: Von Karman Momentum Integral Equation
    • 9.7: Transition, Pressure Gradients, and Boundary-Layer Separation
    • 9.8: Flow Past a Circular Cylinder; Low Reynolds Numbers; Moderate Reynolds Numbers; High Reynolds Numbers

Additional Reading

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Video Seen During Class

Assignment

Problem Set 12