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High Reynolds number Navier-Stokes solutions and boundary layer separation induced by a rectilinear vortex

Marco SammartinoFrancesco GarganoVincenzo Sciacca

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D'Alembert's paradoxGeneral Computer SciencePrandtl numberMathematics::Analysis of PDEsFOS: Physical sciencesPhysics::Fluid Dynamicssymbols.namesakeMathematics - Analysis of PDEsHagen–Poiseuille flow from the Navier–Stokes equationsFOS: MathematicsSettore MAT/07 - Fisica MatematicaMathematical PhysicsMathematicsMathematical analysisGeneral EngineeringFluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)Reynolds numberPhysics - Fluid DynamicsMathematical Physics (math-ph)Non-dimensionalization and scaling of the Navier–Stokes equationsBoundary layersymbolsTurbulent Prandtl numberReynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equationsBoundary layer Unsteady separation Navier Stokes solutions Prandtl’s equation High Reynolds number flows.Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)

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Abstract We compute the solutions of Prandtl’s and Navier–Stokes equations for the two dimensional flow induced by a rectilinear vortex interacting with a boundary in the half plane. For this initial datum Prandtl’s equation develops, in a finite time, a separation singularity. We investigate the different stages of unsteady separation for Navier–Stokes solution at different Reynolds numbers Re = 103–105, and we show the presence of a large-scale interaction between the viscous boundary layer and the inviscid outer flow. We also see a subsequent stage, characterized by the presence of a small-scale interaction, which is visible only for moderate-high Re numbers Re = 104–105. We also investigate the asymptotic validity of boundary layer theory by comparing Prandtl’s solution to Navier–Stokes solutions during the various stages of unsteady separation.

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2013-10-24
https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1310.6623