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 predictions based on the extended theory are found to be in close agreement with predictions of parallel-flow stability theory based on the Orr–Sommerfeld equation; axisymmetric and planar nonparallel effects are concluded to be of negligible importance in the axisymmetric stagnation-point boundary layer.
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