Abstract
The velocity just outside the boundary layer and upstream of the separation ring on a sphere moving along the axis of a slightly viscous, rotating fluid is calculated through a least-squares approximation on the hypothesis of no upstream influence. A reverse flow is found in the neighbourhood of the forward stagnation point fork≡ 2Ωa/U>k= 2·20 (Ω = angular velocity of fluid,U= translational velocity of sphere,a= radius of sphere) and is accompanied by a forwardseparation bubble, such as that observed by Maxworthy (1970) fork[gsim ] 1. Rotation also induces a downstream shift of the peak velocity; the estimated shift of the separation ring in the absence of forward separation increases withkto a maximum of 24°, in qualitative agreement with Maxworthy's observations.The least-squares formulation is compared with that given by Stewartson (1958) for unseparated flow (Stewartson did not consider separation). Both formulations require truncation of an infinite set of simultaneous equations, but Stewartson's formulation yields a non-positive-definite matrix that may exhibit spurious singularities. The least-squares formulation yields a positive-definite matrix, albeit at the expense of slower convergence for fixedk, and is especially well suited for automatic computation.Anad hocincorporation of a cylindrical wave of strength [Uscr ], such that the maximum upstream axial velocity is [Uscr ]U, is considered in an appendix. It is found thatkdecreases monotonically from 2·2 to 0 as [Uscr ] increases from 0 to 1.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics
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