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Viscous rotational stagnation-point flow
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 March 2006
Abstract
The investigation by Hayes (1964a) of the behaviour of a constant-density inviscid rotational flow in the neighbourhood of a stagnation point on a plane wall has been extended to include the effects of viscosity. The principal effect is the manner in which the singularity in vorticity discovered by Hayes is removed. A solution of only the boundary-layer equatiosn indicates the vorticity decays algebraically from the wall. Application of the method of matched asymptotic expansions, however, shows that the difference between boundary layer and outer vorticity, when carried out to second order in the outer flow, does not contribute to an algebraic decay. These results suggest that an infinite number of higher-order outer terms are generated which match the algebraic terms thereby yielding the conventional exponential decay. Numerical results are presented which also support this conclusion. The main contribution of the wall shear stress in the immediate neighbourhood of the stagnation point is shown to come from the external lateral vorticity.
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