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Short-length instabilities, breakdown and initial value problems in dynamic stall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

O. S. Ryzhov  and
F. T. Smith
O. S. Ryzhov
Affiliation:
Computing Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 40 Vavilov Street, 117333 Moscow, USSR.
F. T. Smith
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, University College London, Gower Street, London. WC1E 6BT
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Summary

A recent paper [1] indicates that the beginnings of dynamic stall, near an aerofoil's leading edge, for instance, can be regarded as the finite-time nonlinear breakdown of a boundary layer subjected to an angle of attack above the critical value for the existence of a steady solution. The present theoretical study shows that the same non-linear breakdown can occur even in the below-critical regime. This happens particularly when reversed flow is present since short wavelength disturbances are then unstable and accumulate, for certain confined initial conditions, to force the finite-time collapse. A number of marginal cases with forward or reversed, subsonic or supersonic, oncoming motion are also noted and shed extra light on the instability and subsequent breakdown.

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Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , December 1984 , pp. 163 - 177
Copyright
Copyright © University College London 1984

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