Characteristics of a trailing-edge flow with turbulent boundary-layer separation

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Abstract
Experimental techniques, including flying-hot-wire anemometry, have been used to determine the pressure and velocity characteristics of a flow designed to simulate the trailing-edge region of an airfoil at high angle of attack. Emphasis is placed on the region of recirculating flow and on the downstream wake. It is shown that the effect of this recirculation is large even though the details of the flow within it may be unimportant. Normal stresses and cross-stream pressure gradients are important immediately upstream and downstream of the recirculating flow and are associated with strong streamline curvature. The relative importance of the terms in the transport equations for mean momentum and turbulence energy are quantified and the implications for procedures which solve potential-flow and boundary-layer equations and for alternative calculation methods are discussed.