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The form drag of two-dimensional bluff-plates immersed in turbulent boundary layers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

M. C. Good  and
P. N. Joubert
M. C. Good
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne
P. N. Joubert
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne
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Abstract

Measurements of the distributions of pressure on a bluff flat plate (fence) have been correlated with the characteristics of the smooth-wall boundary layer in which it is immersed. For zero pressure-gradient flows, correlations are obtained for the variation of form drag with plate height h which are analogous in form to the ‘law of the wall’ and the ‘velocity-defect law’ for the boundary-layer velocity profile. The data for adverse pressure-gradient flows is suggestive of a ‘law of the wake’ type correlation. Pressures on the upstream face of the bluff-plate are determined by a wall-similarity law, even for h/δ > 1, and are independent of the pressure-gradient history of the flow; the separation induced upstream is apparently of the Stratford-Townsend type. The effects of the history of the boundary layer are manifested only in the flow in the rear separation bubble, and then only for h/δ > ½. The base pressure is also sensitive to free-stream pressure gradients downstream of the bluff-plate. The relative extent of upstream influence of the bluff-plate on the boundary layer is found to increase rapidly as h/δ decreases. One set of measurements of the mean flow field is also presented.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , 26 February 1968 , pp. 547 - 582
Copyright
© 1968 Cambridge University Press

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