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Internal boundary layer growth following a step change in surface roughness

✍ Scribed by D. H. Wood

Publisher
Springer
Year
1982
Tongue
English
Weight
224 KB
Volume
22
Category
Article
ISSN
0006-8314

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✦ Synopsis

The testing of a simple correlation for the height of the internal layer, found from dimensional analysis, is described. It is shown that the internal layer is controlled by the larger of the upstream and downstream roughness length scales.

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