Abstract:The method of multiple scales has been used to extend linear-stability theory to nonparallel axisymmetric boundary-layer flow in the neighborhood of the stagnation point on a blunt body of revolution. The extended theory includes nonparallel planar effects as well as the effects of such possibly destabilizing three-dimensional mechanisms as the stretching of vortex filaments in the rapidly diverging boundary-layer flow. These mechanisms have not been previously incorporated into stability theory. Stability pre… Show more
“…Grabowski (1980) applied linear stability theory to the boundary layer near a stagnation point on a body of revolution. The decrease is least for favorable pressure gradients, about 10% for zero pressure gradients, and grows rapidly as the pressure gradient becomes more adverse.…”
Section: Experimental Verification Of Boundary-layer Instabilitymentioning
“…Grabowski (1980) applied linear stability theory to the boundary layer near a stagnation point on a body of revolution. The decrease is least for favorable pressure gradients, about 10% for zero pressure gradients, and grows rapidly as the pressure gradient becomes more adverse.…”
Section: Experimental Verification Of Boundary-layer Instabilitymentioning
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