Study of Possibility of Simulation of Thick Turbulent Boundary Layer on a Flat Plate of Limited Length

Abstract

The experiments directed to the study of possibility of simulation of thick equilibrium (according to Clauser) incompressible turbulent boundary layer on a flat plate of limited length have been performed. It is shown that the artificial generators manufactured from circular cylinders (pins) of adjustable height h, which were mounted normal to the wall in a staggered order in two rows in х in vicinity of the plate leading edge are quite effective means of artificial boundary layer thickening. In most cases both the averaged and fluctuation boundary-layer characteristics at a downstream distance about 530 cylinder diameters have values typical for naturally-developed turbulent boundary layer. Mean velocity profiles in the artificially thickened boundary layer taken in wall-law variables are approximated with a good accuracy by the wellknown velocity law valid for canonic boundary layer and they are generalized by a unified dependence using empirical velocity scale