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The effect of pressure gradient on the law of the wall in turbulent flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

Henry Mcdonald
Henry Mcdonald
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United Aircraft Research Laboratories, East Hartford, Connecticut
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Abstract

The effect of a streamwise pressure gradient on the velocity profile in the viscous sublayer of a turbulent flow along a smooth wall in two-dimensional flow is estimated. In the analysis, a similarity argument is used and the necessary empirical information obtained from a constant pressure flow. An allowance is made for the departure from the wall value of the gradient of total shear stress normal to the wall. The results of analysis were used to generate new additive constants for use with Townsend's modified law of the wall velocity profile and subsequently Townsend's profile is found to be in good agreement with the measured velocity profiles in an adverse pressure gradient.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , 16 January 1969 , pp. 311 - 336
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© 1969 Cambridge University Press

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