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Correlated unsteady and steady laminar trailing-edge flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

S. N. Brown  and
H. K. Cheng
S. N. Brown
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University College, London
H. K. Cheng
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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Abstract

The incompressible laminar flow in the neighbourhood of the trailing edge of an aerofoil undergoing sinusoidal oscillations of small amplitude in a uniform stream is described in the limit as the Reynolds number R tends to infinity. It is shown that if the frequency parameter is of any order less than R¼ the viscous correction to the Kutta condition and hence to the lift and moment may be determined from the results for the steady case. Justification of this correlation requires discussion of the flow in an additional region not encountered in previous studies.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 108 , July 1981 , pp. 171 - 183
Copyright
© 1981 Cambridge University Press

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