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Three-dimensional local separation

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A solution to the problem of local separation of a three-dimensional boundary layer from an arbitrary smooth surface is constructed. Separation takes place along the limiting streamline at the points of which the component of the surface friction (calculated from the boundary-layer equations) that is orthogonal to this streamline has a break. An asymptotic expansion of the solution of the Navier-Stokes equations that describes the flow field in the separation region is found. The conclusions for the two-dimensional and self-similar theory of local separation are generalized to the three-dimensional case.

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    G. G. Vilenskii

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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 3, pp. 39–47, May–June, 1991.

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Vilenskii, G.G. Three-dimensional local separation. Fluid Dyn 26, 349–356 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01059003

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