Viscous Fluid Flow

Project
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Comment
You are free to use any mathematical software (Maple or Mathematica) to calculate parametric integrals and please
present your results in a clear report.

Statement
Consider a cylinder of a radius a immersed in a stream of velocity U

. If | is the angle measured from the nose, the

potential flow surface velocity distribution is
3 5
2sin 2 0.333 0.0167
e
U x x x
U a a a
|

| | | |
= = +
| |
\ . \ .


Part A: By Thwaites method, you should predict separation at 104.5 | ~ . As the first-order flow separation effects,
the potential flow is not a good approximation. The actual measured velocity distribution fits the curve
3 5
1.814 0.271 0.0471
e
U x x x
U a a a

| | | |
=
| |
\ . \ .


Part B: You should show the maximum value of this curve is 1.595
e
U
U

= at 71.5 | = , whereas the potential flow has

a maximum of 2
e
U
U

= at 90 | = .

Part C: In addition, show the separation angle is 78.5 | ~ for Thwaites method which is much more compatible
with experimental findings.

Part D: Finally, sketch the profile of u , H and
f
C along the flow direction for Re 9500
aU
a v

= = .
Spring 2013
Instructor: A. Kebriaee
Due Date: 5 Tir
Email: info@kebriaee.com