Computation of Boundary Layers.docVIP

Acta Polytechnica Hungarica Vol. 1, No. 2, 2004 Computation of Boundary Layers József Dénes, István Patkó Budapest Tech Doberdó út 6, H-1034 Budapest, Hungary, E-mail: denes.jozsef@nik.bmf.hu patko@bmf.hu Abstract:This paper is the first part of a series of studies where we examine several methods for the solution of the boundary layer equation of the fluid mechanics. The first of these is the analytical or rather quasi analytical method due to Blasius. This method reduces a system of partial differential equations to a system of ordinary differential equations and these in turn are solved by numerical methods since no exact solution of the Blasius type equations is known. We determind all the Blasius equation neccessary for up to 11-th order approximation. Our further aim to study the finite difference numerical solutions of the boundary layer equation and some of the methods applying weighted residual principles and by comparing these with the ”exact” solutions arrived at by Blasius method develop a quick reliable method for solving the boundary layer equation. Keywords: Boundary Layer, Blasius Method, Boundary Layer equation 1 Boundary Layer The motion of a fluid around a solid body according to Prandtl (1904) can be described by the Euler equation of the perfect (that is nonviscous) fluid motion except in a thin layer near the surface of the solid body where the speed of the motion increases from zero to the speed that would be in case if the fluid had no viscosity at all. Outside the boundary layer the fluid may be considered as nonviscous. This is the case when the velocity of the fluid in the direction of the flow around the body increases. When it decreases that is the pressure increases, often the fluid motion unable to follow the bodies’ surface and it gets detached and the space between the surface of the solid and the