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Turbulent boundary-layer flow on a rotating disk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

T-S. Cham and
M. R. Head
T-S. Cham
Affiliation:
Cambridge University Engineering Department
M. R. Head
Affiliation:
Cambridge University Engineering Department
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Abstract

Calculations have been made of the development of the turbulent boundary layer on a disk rotating in free air, using circumferential and radial momentum-integral equations and an auxiliary equation of entrainment. In the calculations, circumferential velocity profiles are represented by Thompson's (1965) two-parameter family, while radial profiles are given by Mager's (1952) quadratic expression. The circumferential component of skin friction follows from the use of Thompson's profile family for the circumferential velocity. The entrainment, in dimensionless form, is assumed to be determined uniquely by the circumferential velocity profile in the same way as was proposed by Head (1958) for a two-dimensional turbulent boundary layer.

Detailed measurements have been made of the development of the turbulent boundary layer on the rotating disk, and the calculations are found to be in excellent agreement with the results when a suitable adjustment is made to Head's two-dimensional entrainment curve.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , 5 June 1969, pp. 129 - 147
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© 1969 Cambridge University Press

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