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Low-frequency approximations in unsteady small perturbation subsonic flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

R. K. Amiet
R. K. Amiet
Affiliation:
United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, Connecticut 06108
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Abstract

A more rigorous proof is given of the validity of a generalized Prandtl—Glauert technique for caculating the solution to time-dependent small perturbation flows. The method, first used by Miles (1950a) for the airfoil problem and later applied by Amiet & Sears (1970) to more general problems, allows calculation of the term of first order in frequency. Anomalous behaviour for the two-dimensional problem is examined in detail and found to be limited to those two-dimensional cases which include shed vorticity downstream of the body. This anomaly, which precludes using the method for these cases, results from the need to satisfy a velocity boundary condition on the body. For this purpose the velocity must be calculated from the basic variable, the pressure, through an integrated form of the momentum equation. It is in thus calculating the velocity that the anomaly occurs. The method can be applied to both the two-dimensional case without shed vorticity and the general three-dimensional case.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 75 , Issue 3 , 11 June 1976 , pp. 545 - 552
Copyright
© 1976 Cambridge University Press

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