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Wall layers with non-uniform shear stress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

A. J. Reynolds
A. J. Reynolds
Affiliation:
Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, McGill University
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Abstract

The empirical description of turbulent wall layers across which the shear stress varies is considered. The description given by Townsend for zero-stress layers is found to be inapplicable to uniform pressure flows in pipes and two-dimensional channels, and to a boundary layer developing in the absence of a pressure gradient.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , July 1965 , pp. 443 - 448
Copyright
© 1965 Cambridge University Press

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