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A note on the laminar mixing of two uniform parallel semi-infinite streams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

J. B. Klemp  and
Andreas Acrivos
J. B. Klemp
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University Present address: National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.
Andreas Acrivos
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
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Abstract

According to classical boundary-layer theory, when two uniform parallel streams are brought into contact at large Reynolds number (R) the location of the dividing streamline remains indeterminate to O(R−½) if both streams are subsonic and semi-infinite in extent. It is demonstrated here that this indeterminacy is a fundamental property of such a system which cannot be resolved, as Ting (1959) proposed, by balancing the pressure across the viscous mixing region to higher order in R.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , 12 September 1972 , pp. 25 - 30
Copyright
© 1972 Cambridge University Press

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