Modulated stagnation-point flow and steady streaming
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 198 (-1) , 543-555
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112089000248
Abstract
Plane stagnation-point flow is modulated in the free stream so that the velocity components are proportional to KH + K cosωt. Similarity solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations are examined using high-frequency asymptotics for K and KH of unit order. Special attention is focused on the steady streaming generated in this flow with strongly non-parallel streamlines. For small modulation amplitude K [les ] KH, unique self-similar streaming flows exist. For large modulation amplitude K > KH, if (K/ω) (K/KH) [ges ] 1.661 no self-similar streaming is possible, while if 4/3 [les ] (K/ω) (K/KH) [les ] 1.661, then multiple steady solutions occur.Keywords
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