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Axisymmetric laminar wake behind a slender body of revolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2006

Francis R. Hama  and
Leigh F. Peterson
Francis R. Hama
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
Leigh F. Peterson
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
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Abstract

At the body-diameter Reynolds number 2000, the axisymmetric wake behind a slender streamlined body of revolution remained laminar without any indication of breakup far beyond the five-body-lengths test section. The mean-velocity profiles were measured with close spacings in order to obtain experimental information on the transient process from boundary layer to fully developed wake. A semi-empirical theory was developed to describe the flow-field characteristics.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 76 , Issue 1 , 14 July 1976 , pp. 1 - 16
Copyright
© 1976 Cambridge University Press

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