OCEN 678

Fluid Dynamics for Ocean and Environmental Engineering

Blasius Boundary Layer Solution

Learning Objectives:
1. Develop approximations to the exact solution by eliminating negligible contributions to the solution using scale analysis

Topics/Outline:
1. 2. 3. 4. Identification of similarity solution for Blasius boundary layer Substitution of similarity solution into boundary layer equations Simplification to a single ODE Numerical solution to Blasius boundary layer equation

Reading:
Currie, I.G. (2003). Fundamental Mechanics of Fluids, third edition. Marcel Dekker, Inc.: New York. QA901 .C8 2003 Chapter 9 Kundu, P.K. and Cohen, I.M. (2008). Fluid Mechanics, fourth edition. Academic Press: New York. QA901 .K86 2008, previous edition as electronic resource: QA901 .K86 2002eb Chapter 10 Newman, J.N. (1977). Marine Hydrodynamics. The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. VM156 .N48, also available as electronic resource: VM156 .N48 1977eb Chapter 3 Spurk, J.H. and Aksel, N. (2008). Fluid Mechanics, second edition. Springer Verlag: Berlin. TA357 .S68513 2008eb Chapter 12

S. Socolofsky