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Experimental study of a nonstationary boundary layer

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The flow past a sphere as it accelerates in a stream of fluid is studied. Depending on the magnitude and sign of the acceleration the line of boundary-layer separation shifts to the forward or rear stagnation point.

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  1. G. Schlichting, Theory of the Boundary Layers, McGraw-Hill (1968).

  2. P. Chen, Flow with Separation, Vol. 1 [Russian translation], Moscow (1972).

  3. V. V. Struminskii, Aeordynamics and Molecular Gas Dynamics [in Russian], Moscow (1985).

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  1. Sector of Mechanics of Inhomogeneous Media, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow

    V. A. Gudkov

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 11–16, January, 1990.

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Gudkov, V.A. Experimental study of a nonstationary boundary layer. Journal of Engineering Physics 58, 7–11 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00872689

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