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Incompressible flow along a corner

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

Stanley G. Rubin
Affiliation:
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Farmingdale, New York

Abstract

The incompressible viscous flow along a right-angle corner, formed by the intersection of two semi-infinite flat plates, is considered. The effect of the three-dimensional geometry on the second-order ‘boundary layer’ flow away from the corner is determined and an interesting secondary flow is deduced. It is observed that this cross-flow prescribes the necessary asymptotic boundary conditions for the equations governing the flow inside the ‘corner layer’. A systematic matching scheme is specified and the corner flow problem is reformulated in terms of the ‘corner layer-boundary layer’ matching conditions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1966 Cambridge University Press

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