Solutions for incompressible separated boundary layers including viscous-inviscid interaction

Numerical solutions are presented for the laminar and turbulent boundary-layer equations for incompressible flows with separation and reattachment. The separation singularity is avoided by using an inverse technique in which the displacement thickness is prescribed and the pressure is deduced from the resulting solution. The turbulent results appear qualitatively-correct despite the use of a two-layer eddy-viscosity model which is generally assumed appropriate only for mild-pressure-gradient flows. A new viscous-inviscid interaction technique is presented in which the inviscid flow is solved inversely by prescribing the pressure from the boundary-layer solution and deducing the new displacement thickness from the solution of a Cauchy integral. Calculations are presented using this interaction procedure for a laminar flow in which separation and reattachment occur on a solid surface.

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