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In physics and fluid mechanics, a Blasius boundary layer (named after Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius) describes the steady two-dimensional laminar boundary layer that forms on a semi-infinite plate which is held parallel to a constant unidirectional flow . The solution to the Navier–Stokes equation for this flow begins with an order-of-magnitude analysis to determine what terms are important. Within the boundary layer the usual balance between viscosity and convective inertia is struck, resulting in the scaling argument : x-Momentum: (note that the x-independence of has been accounted for in the boundary-layer equations) admit a similarity solution. In the system of partial differential equations written above it is assumed that a fixed solid body wall is parallel to the x-direction whereas the y-direction is normal with respect to the fixed wall, as shown in the above schematic. and denote here the x- and y-components of the fluid velocity vector. Furthermore, from the scaling argument it is apparent that the boundary layer grows with the downstream coordinate , e.g. : This suggests adopting the similarity variable : and writing : It proves convenient to work with the stream function , in which case : and on differentiating, to find the velocities, and substituting into the boundary-layer equation we obtain the Blasius equation : subject to on and as . This non-linear ODE can be solved numerically, with the shooting method proving an effective choice. The shear stress on the plate : can then be computed. The numerical solution gives . ==Falkner–Skan boundary layer== We can generalize the Blasius boundary layer by considering a wedge at an angle of attack from some uniform velocity field . We then estimate the outer flow to be of the form: Where is a characteristic length and ''m'' is a dimensionless constant. In the Blasius solution, m = 0 corresponding to an angle of attack of zero radians. Thus we can write: As in the Blasius solution, we use a similarity variable to solve the Navier-Stokes Equations. : It becomes easier to describe this in terms of its stream function which we write as : Thus the initial differential equation which was written as follows: : Can now be expressed in terms of the non-linear ODE known as the Falkner–Skan equation (named after V. M. Falkner and Sylvia W. Skan〔V. M. Falkner and S. W. Skan, ''Aero. Res. Coun. Rep. and Mem.'' no 1314, 1930.〕). : (note that produces the Blasius equation). See Wilcox 2007. In 1937 Douglas Hartree revealed that physical solutions exist only in the range . Here, m < 0 corresponds to an adverse pressure gradient (often resulting in boundary layer separation) while m > 0 represents a favorable pressure gradient. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blasius boundary layer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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