A Wake and an Eddy in a Rotating, Radial-Flow Passage—Part 2: Flow Model

Abstract

Rotational and three-dimensional terms are added to a strip-integral method for predicting the behavior of turbulent boundary layers. The secondary flow in the boundary layers is analyzed, and a theory for the momentum transport in the corner regions is used to couple the development of all the boundary layers. Simple assumptions for the potential flow and wake regions complete a model which allows the calculation of the whole channel flow, with only the specification of the inlet boundary layers.