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                        External Flows. Boundary Layer concepts
                                       Henryk Kudela
               Contents
               1  Introduction
               External flows past objects encompass an extremely wide variety of fluid mechanics phenom-
               ena. Clearly the character of the flow field is a function of the shape of the body. For a given-
               shaped object,the characteristics of the flow depend very strongly on various parameters such
               as size,orientation,speed,and fluid properties. According to dimensional analysis arguments,the
               character of the flow should depend on the various dimensionless parameters involved. For typical
               external flows the most important of these parameters are the Reynolds numberRe=UL=ν, where
               L– is characteristic dimension of the body. For many high-Reynolds-number flows the flow field
               maybedivided into two region
                 1. a viscous boundary layer adjacent to the surface of the vehicle
                 2. the essentially inviscid flow outside the boundary layer
                 Wknowthatfluidsadhere thesolid walls and they take the solid wall velocity. When the wall
               does not move also the velocity of fluid on the wall is zero. In region near the wall the velocity
               of fluid particles increases from a value of zero at the wall to the value that corresponds to the
               external ”frictionless” flow outside the boundary layer (see figure).
               2  Boundarylayerconcepts
               The concept of the boundary layer was developed by Prandtl in 1904. It provides an important
               link between ideal fluid flow and real-fluid flow.
                  Fluids having relatively small viscosity , the effect of internal friction in a fluid is
                  appreciable only in a narrow region surrounding the fluid boundaries.
               Since the fluid at the boundaries has zero velocity, there is a steep velocity gradient from the
               boundary into the flow. This velocity gradient in a real fluid sets up shear forces near the boundary
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          Figure 1: Visualization of the flow around the car. It is visible the thin layer along the body
          cause by viscosity of the fluid. The flow outside the narrow regin near the solid boundary can be
          considered as ideal (ivicied).
          that reduce the flow speed to that of the boundary.That fluid layer which has had its velocity
          affected by the boundary shear is called the boundary layer.
          For smooth upstream boundaries the boundary layer starts out as a laminar boundary layer in
          which the fluid particles move in smooth layers. As the laminar boundary layer increases in
          thickness, it becomes unstable and finally transforms into a turbulent boundary layer in which
          the fluid particles move in haphazard paths. When the boundary layer has become turbulent, there
          is still a very thon layer next to the boundary layer that has laminar motion. It is called the laminar
          sublayer.
          Various definitions of boundary–layer thickness δ have been suggested. The most basic definition
          Figure 2: The development of the boundary layer for flow over a flat plate, and the different flow
          regimes. The vertical scale has been greatly exaggerated and horizontal scale has been shortened.
          refers to the displacement of the main flow due to slowing down od particles in the boundary zone.
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                 This thickness δ∗,called the displacement thickness is expressed by
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                                            Uδ1∗=Z0δ(U−u)dy                           (1)
                 Figure 3: Definition of boundary layer thickness:(a) standard boundary layer(u = 99%U),(b)
                 boundary layer displacement thickness .
                    The boundary layer thickness is defined also as that distance from the plate at which the fluid
                 velocity is within some arbitrary value of the upstream velocity. Typically, as indicated in figure
                 (??a), δ = y where u = 0:99U.
                 Another boundary layer characterstic, called as the boundary layer momentum thickness, Θ as
                                             Θ=Zδ u(1− u)dy                           (2)
                                                 0 U    U
                 All three boundary layer thickness definition δ, δ∗, Θ are use in boundary layer analysis.
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                 3   Scaling analysis
                 Prandtl obtained the simplified equation of fluid motion inside the boundary layer by scaling anal-
                 ysis called a rrelative order of magnitude analysis. Let as recall the steady equation of motion for
                 longitudinal component of velocity
                                      u∂u+u∂v=−∂p+ν∂2u+∂2u                          (3)
                                                            2    2
                                       ∂x    ∂y    ∂x     ∂x   ∂y
                 The left terms of the eq. (??) is called as advective term of acceleration. The term proportional
                 to the viscosity represent viscous forces. At first Prandtl’s boundary layer theory is a applicable
                 if δ ≪ L , it is the thickness of the boundary layer is much smaller that the then streamwise
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                        (longitudinal) length of body.
                        Let a characteristic magnitude of u in the flow field be U. Let L be the streamwise distance over
                        which u changes appreciably (from 0 toU). A measure of ∂u is therefore U, so that the advective
                                partialu                                              ∂x              L
                        term u    ∂x   maybeestimated
                                                                       ∂u    U2
                                                                     u∂x ∼ L                                               (4)
                        where∼istobeinterpreted as”oforder”. Wecanregarded theterm U2 asameasureoftheinertial
                        forces. A measure of the viscus term in eq. (??) is                     L
                                                                      ∂2u     νU
                                                                    ν    2 ∼    2                                          (5)
                                                                      ∂y      δ
                        Theterm(∂2u ∼ U ismuchsmallerthanterm(∂2u ∼ U maybedrops fromtheequations. Prandtl
                                      2    2                                2    2
                                    ∂x    L                               ∂y    L
                        assumed that within the boundary layer, the viscous forces and inertial forces are the same order.
                        It means that
                                                            νU : U2 = ν L2=∼1                                            (6)
                                                             δ2    L     LU δ
                        Recognizing that UL=ν =Re ,we see immediately that
                                                       L
                                                                     δ ∼ √L                                                (7)
                                                                             Re
                                                                               L
                         Thecoefficient oftheproportionality, that correspond tothethickness ofboundary layer according
                        Figure 4: An order–of–magnitude analysis of the laminar boundary layer equations along a flat
                                                       √
                        plate revels that δ grows like   x
                        to the definition of δ as u = 0:99U in eq. (??) is commonly taken as equal to 5. The thickness of
                        the boundary layer along the flat plate depend on x and can be calculated form
                                                                     5x                Ux
                                                            δ(x)= √       ;     Re =                                       (8)
                                                                      Re           x    ν
                                                                         x
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