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The unsteady boundary layer on a rotating disk in a counter-rotating fluid. Part 2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

K. Stewartson ,
C. J. Simpson  and
R. J. Bodonyi
K. Stewartson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University College London
C. J. Simpson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University College London
R. J. Bodonyi
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana–Purdue University at Indianapolis
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Abstract

An unsteady boundary layer on a rotating disk in a counter-rotating fluid was shown in Bodonyi & Stewartson (1977) to develop a singularity at the axis of rotation after a finite time. The structure proposed to describe the singularity is, however, incomplete, even after an additional term was added by Banks & Zaturska (1981). A description is given here in which the boundary layer is divided into three regions; this description seems to be free of the weaknesses of the earlier studies, and is in good agreement with data from the numerical solution of the governing equations.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 121 , August 1982 , pp. 507 - 515
Copyright
© 1982 Cambridge University Press

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