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High-Reynolds-Number Asymptotics of Turbulent Boundary Layers

From Fully Attached to Marginally Separated Flows

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BAIL 2008 - Boundary and Interior Layers

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering ((LNCSE,volume 69))

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This paper reports on recent efforts with the ultimate goal to obtain a fully self-consistent picture of turbulent boundary layer separation. To this end, it is shown first how the classical theory of turbulent small-defect boundary layers can be generalised rigorously to boundary layers with a slightly larger, i.e. moderately large, velocity defect and, finally, to situations where the velocity defect is of O(1). In the latter case, the formation of short recirculation zones describing marginally separated flows is found possible, as described in a rational manner.

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  1. Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Vienna University of Technology, Resselgasse, Vienna, 3/E322, A-1040, Austria

    Alfred Kluwick & Bernhard Scheichl

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  1. Dept. Mathematics & Statistics, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Alan Hegarty

  2. Dept. Mathematics & Statistics, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Natalia Kopteva

  3. School of Mathematical Sciences, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland

    Eugene O'Riordan

  4. Dept. Mathematics, University College Cork, Aras Na Laoi , Cork, Ireland

    Martin Stynes

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Kluwick, A., Scheichl, B. (2009). High-Reynolds-Number Asymptotics of Turbulent Boundary Layers. In: Hegarty, A., Kopteva, N., O'Riordan, E., Stynes, M. (eds) BAIL 2008 - Boundary and Interior Layers. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 69. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00605-0_1

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