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THE LAMINAR BOUNDARY LAYER ALONG A FLAT PLATE

[pic 1]

The boundary layer along a flat plate at zero incidence

  1. Momentum Transfer (Blasius’ solution)

The boundary layer equations for momentum transfer are as followings:

[pic 2]

[pic 3]

with the boundary conditions: at y = 0, u = v = 0; and at y = , u = u

Similarity Transformation: Transforming the independent variables x and y to η, and the dependent variable Ψ (stream function) to f(η) as the following definitions:

[pic 4] and [pic 5]

Then, the boundary layer equations become a single ordinary differential equation as:

[pic 6] (Blasius’s equation)

with the boundary conditions as: atη= 0, f = f’ = 0 and atη= , f’ = 1.

The differential equation is solved numerically and the solution is

[pic 7]

Velocity distribution in the boundary layer along a flat plate, after Blasius [2]

The function [pic 8]for the boundary layer a flat plate at zero incidence, after L. Howarth [16]

[pic 9]

f

f[pic 10]

f

0.0

0

0

0.33206

0.2

0.00664

0.6641

0.33199

0.4

0.02656

0.13277

0.33147

0.6

0.05974

0.19894

0.33008

0.8

0.10611

0.26471

0.32739

1.0

0.16557

0.32979

0.32301

1.2

0.23795

0.39378

0.31659

1.4

0.32298

0.45627

0.30787

1.6

0.42032

0.51676

0.29667

1.8

0.52952

0.57477

0.28293

2.0

0.65003

0.62977

0.26675

2.2

0.78120

0.67132

0.24835

2.4

0.92230

0.72899

0.22809

2.6

1.07252

0.77246

0.20646

2.8

1.23099

0.81152

0.18401

3.0

1.39682

0.84605

0.16136

3.2

1.56911

0.87609

0.13913

3.4

1.74696

0.90199

0.11788

3.6

1.92954

0.92333

0.09809

3.8

2.11605

0.94112

0.08013

4.0

2.30576

0.95552

0.06424

4.2

2.49806

0.96696

0.05052

4.4

2.69238

0.97587

0.03897

4.6

2.88826

0.98269

0.02948

4.8

3.08534

0.98779

0.02187

5.0

3.28329

0.99155

0.01591

5.2

3.48189

0.99425

0.01134

5.4

3.68094

0.99616

0.00793

5.6

3.88031

0.99748

0.00543

5.8

4.07990

0.99838

0.00365

6.0

4.27964

0.99898

0.00240

6.2

4.47948

0.99937

0.00155

6.4

4.67938

0.99961

0.00098

6.6

4.87931

0.99977

0.00061

6.8

5.07928

0.99987

0.00037

7.0

5.27926

0.99992

0.00022

7.2

5.47925

0.99996

0.00013

7.4

5.67924

0.99998

0.00007

7.6

5.87924

0.99999

0.00004

7.8

6.07923

1.00000

0.00002

8.0

6.27923

1.0000

0.00001

8.2

6.47923

1.00000

0.00001

8.4

6.67923

1.00000

0.00000

8.6

6.87923

1.00000

0.00000

8.8

7.07923

1.00000

0.00000


Boundary layer thickness δ: The boundary layer thickness is defined as the distance from surface at u/u = 0.99.  From the above table, it is atη= 5; thus,

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