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Published September 2007 | Version public
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Analytical model of the time developing turbulent boundary layer

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  • 1. ROR icon Weizmann Institute of Science
  • 2. ROR icon University of California, Irvine
  • 3. ROR icon California Institute of Technology

Abstract

An analytical model for the time-developing turbulent boundary layer (TD TBL) over a flat plate is presented. The model provides explicit formulae for the temporal behavior of the wall-shear stress and both the temporal and spatial distributions of the mean streamwise velocity, the turbulence kinetic energy and Reynolds shear stress. The resulting profiles are in good agreement with the DNS results of spatially-developing turbulent boundary layers at momentum thickness Reynolds numbers equal to 1430 and 2900 [5–7]. Our analytical model is, to the best of our knowledge, the first of its kind for TD TBL.

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© 2007 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd. Received June 4, 2007. The text was submitted by the authors in English. We thank Oleksii Rudenko for fruitful discussions. We acknowledge the support of the U.S.–Israel Binational Science Foundation.

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Binational Science Foundation (USA-Israel)

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