Experimental Study of Unsteady Separating Turbulent Boundary Layers

Download or read book Experimental Study of Unsteady Separating Turbulent Boundary Layers written by N. K. Agarwal and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed experimental study of two large amplitude unsteady freestream flows and a third unsteady flow produced by an oscillating roof damper is reported. Detailed ensemble-averaged velocity and turbulence measurements were made using hot-wire and laser anemometers. While the primary function of this report is to present and document these data, some discussion of the results and a number of data plots are presented. The reduced data are available on computer diskettes. Upstream of detachment at the phases with no flow reversal, the flows are quasi-steady. For the large amplitude flows, at low velocity phases some flow reversal occurs upstream of detachment, which was not observed in the moderate amplitude flow studied by Simpson et al. (1983). After the beginning of detachment, large amplitude and phase variations develop through each flow. Huge backflow velocities, as large as free-stream, were measured. Keywords: Unsteady flows, Laser anemometry, Turbulence, Separation.