Calculation of the viscous resistance of bodies of revolution:

The flow in the tail region of a body of revolution is a complex one since there the boundary layer often grows to a thickness many times the local radius of the body and there results a strong interaction between the boundary layer and the external potential flow. The influence of making simplifyin...

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Main Authors: Nakayama, A. (Author), Patel, V. C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Iowa City, Iowa 1973
Series:Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research <Iowa City, Iowa>: IIHR-report. 151.
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Summary:The flow in the tail region of a body of revolution is a complex one since there the boundary layer often grows to a thickness many times the local radius of the body and there results a strong interaction between the boundary layer and the external potential flow. The influence of making simplifying assumptions concerning the flow in this region in conventional drag-calculation methods is discussed, and assessed by incorporating a method which takes into account the effects of the thick axisymmetric boundary-layer near the tail in an approximate manner. It is shown that this modification leads to a drag-calculation method which gives consistently accurate prediction of the viscous resistance of a wide variety of bodies of revolution. (Author).
Physical Description:39 S. in getr. Zählung

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