Laminar flow in the entrance region of a smooth pipe
- 13 February 1979
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 90 (3) , 433-447
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112079002330
Abstract
The entrance region has been divided into two parts, the inlet region and the filled region. At the end of the inlet region, the boundary layers meet at the pipe axis but the velocity profiles are not yet similar. In the filled region, adjustment of the completely viscous profile takes place until the Poiseuille similar profile is attained at the end of it. The boundary-layer equations in the inlet region and the Navier-Stokes equations with order-of-magnitude analysis in the filled region are solved using fourth-degree velocity profiles. The total length of the entrance region so obtained is ξ = x/R Re = 0·150, whereas the boundary layers are observed to meet at approximately one-quarter of the entrance length, i.e. at ξ = 0·036. Experiments reported in the paper corroborate the analytical results.Keywords
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