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Boundary conditions at a naturally permeable wall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

Gordon S. Beavers
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautics and Engineering Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Daniel D. Joseph
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautics and Engineering Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Abstract

Experiments giving the mass efflux of a Poiseuille flow over a naturally permeable block are reported. The efflux is greatly enhanced over the value it would have if the block were impermeable, indicating the presence of a boundary layer in the block. The velocity presumably changes across this layer from its (statistically average) Darcy value to some slip value immediately outside the permeable block. A simple theory based on replacing the effect of the boundary layer with a slip velocity proportional to the exterior velocity gradient is proposed and shown to be in reasonable agreement with experimental results.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1967 Cambridge University Press

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