A solution is obtained for the motion of a thin oil sheet, of non-uniform thickness, under a boundary layer. The following points are deduced: (a) The oil flows in the direction of the boundary-layer skin-friction, except near separation, where the oil tends to indicate separation too early. These conclusions are independent of oil viscosity. (b) The effect of the oil flow on the boundary-layer motion is very small.The application of the results to the interpretation of oil-flow patterns is briefly considered.
Thirteen species of seagrass and six species of juvenile penaeid prawn of commercial importance were found in seagrass beds in waters between Cape York and Cairns. The pioneering seagrass species, Halodule uninemis (Forsk.) Aschers, and Halophila ovalis (R. Br.) Hook. f., were present in almost all coastal areas. Two seagrass species often dominant in the tropics, Enhalus acoroides (L.f.) Royle and Thalassia hemprichii (Ehrenb.) Aschers., were uncommon. This is likely to have resulted from environmental stress during periods of reduced salinity and high turbidity associated with seasonal summer rainfall. Halophila decipiens Ostenfeld was the only species found in depths > 11 m. Three depth-related zones of species are described. With the exception of E. aroroides, most seagrasses were <20 cm in height. Seagrass biomass was greatest in 2-6 m of water. Maximum dry weight of above-ground plant material and maximum leaf area from a square metre of bottom was 99.6 g and 4.5 m2, respectively, at the Flinders Group of islands. The distribution of prawns and seagrasses did not show a trend with latitude. Penaeus esculentus Haswell and Metapenaeus endeavouri (Schmitt), the most numerous penaeid prawn species in commercial trawl catches, were also the most numerous juvenile prawns in seagrass beds. Juvenile P. longistylus Kubo were found for the first time in northern Queensland seagrass beds. Although juveniles of this species appeared to occupy only a narrow habitat range, these habitats were found in coastal bays, in estuaries and on coral-reef platforms where conditions were suitable. Size-class data suggest that reef prawns and coastal prawns are parts of the same population. The timing of the life cycle of the major commercial prawn species differed from that found previously in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
A detailed experimental investigation has been made of shock/boundary-layer interactions on curved surfaces at transonic speeds. The shock waves were generated above circular-arc models with different radii mounted on the floor of the wind-tunnel test section. The ratio of the boundary-layer thickness (U/Ue = 0.99) in front of the shock to the radius of the surface curvature ranged from 0 (i.e. a flat surface) to 0.068. The Mach number just in front of the shock varied from 1.00 to 1.82 and the Reynolds number based on the model chord length was about 1.6 million. Interacting-flow studies include flows with shock-induced separation, flows with trailing-edge separation and flows with no separation. From all these studies it was found that separation was most extensive at the critical peak Mach number at which the separation changes from trailing-edge separation to shock-induced separation.
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