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Laminar flow in the entrance region of a smooth pipe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2006

A. K. Mohanty  and
S. B. L. Asthana
A. K. Mohanty
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
S. B. L. Asthana
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
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Abstract

The entrance region has been divided into two parts, the inlet region and the filled region. At the end of the inlet region, the boundary layers meet at the pipe axis but the velocity profiles are not yet similar. In the filled region, adjustment of the completely viscous profile takes place until the Poiseuille similar profile is attained at the end of it. The boundary-layer equations in the inlet region and the Navier-Stokes equations with order-of-magnitude analysis in the filled region are solved using fourth-degree velocity profiles. The total length of the entrance region so obtained is ξ = x/R Re = 0·150, whereas the boundary layers are observed to meet at approximately one-quarter of the entrance length, i.e. at ξ = 0·036. Experiments reported in the paper corroborate the analytical results.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 90 , Issue 3 , 13 February 1979 , pp. 433 - 447
Copyright
© 1979 Cambridge University Press

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