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Inviscid instability of streamwise corner flow

Balachandar, S.; Malik, Mujeeb R.

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Title
Inviscid instability of streamwise corner flow
Author(s)
  • Balachandar, S.
  • Malik, Mujeeb R.
Issue Date
1993-07
Keyword(s)
  • Inviscid Instability
  • Streamwise Corner Flow
Date of Ingest
2021-11-04T16:28:25Z
Abstract
Linear stability of the incompressible flow along a streamwise corner is studied by solving the two-dimensional eigenvalue problem governed by partial differential equations. It is found that this fully three-dimensional flow is subject to inviscid stability due to the inflectional nature of the streawise velocity profile. The higher growth rates for the inviscid instability mode, which is symmetric about the corner bisector, as compared to the viscous Tollmien-Schlichting instability operative away from the corner is consistent with the experimental findings that the corner flow transitions to turbulence earlier than the two-dimensional Blasius flow away from the corner.
Publisher
Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. College of Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
  • TAM R 715
  • 1993-6013
ISSN
0073-5264
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
technical report
Language
eng
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/112403
Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)
NASA Langley Research Center 93/07
Copyright and License Information
Copyright 1993 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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