Abstract
A study is made of uniform flow past a semi-infinite flat plate with a similarity injection distribution of boundary-layer magnitude. Attention is focused on a solution at exactly the critical injection rate for which classical boundary-layer theory predicts the blow-off singularity. Following a description of the more recent interaction analyses which also fail at the critical rate, a new theory is developed which leads to physically meaningful results. In particular, it is shown that the non-monotonic variation in wall shear with increasing injection rate near the critical value, noted by Klemp & Acrivos (1972), is real. A delicate interplay of weak pressure interactions and viscous effects is shown to be responsible for this surprising phenomenon.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics
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