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The effect of small surface perturbations on the pulsatile boundary layer on a semi-infinite flat plate

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P. W. Duck
P. W. Duck
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Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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Abstract

The laminar pulsatile flow over a semi-infinite flat plate, on which is located a small (steady) surface distortion is investigated; triple-deck theory provides the basis for the study. The problem is of direct relevance to the externally imposed acoustic excitation of boundary layers. The investigation is primarily numerical and involves the solution of the nonlinear, unsteady boundary-layer equations which arise from the lower deck. The numerical method involves the use of finite differencing in the transverse direction, Crank-Nicolson marching in time, and Fourier transforms in the streamwise direction, and as such is an extension of the spectral method of Burggraf & Duck (1982). Supersonic and incompressible flows are studied. A number of the computations presented suggest that the small surface distortion can excite a large-wavenumber, rapidly growing instability, leading to a breakdown of the solution, with the wall shear at a point seeming to increase without bound as a finite time is approached. Rayleigh modes for the basic (undisturbed) velocity profile are computed and there is some correlation between the existence and magnitude of the growth rate of these unstable modes, and the occurrence of the apparent singularity. Streamline plots indicate that this phenomenon is linked to the formation of closed (or ‘cats-eye’) eddies in the main body of the boundary layer, away from the wall. Tollmien-Schlichting instabilities are clearly seen in the case of incompressible flows.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 197 , December 1988 , pp. 259 - 293
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© 1988 Cambridge University Press

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