Unsteady Reversed Stagnation-Point Flow over a Flat Plate

This paper investigates the nature of the development of two-dimensional laminar flow of an incompressible fluid at the reversed stagnation-point. ". In this study, we revisit the problem of reversed stagnation-point flow over a flat plate. Proudman and Johnson (1962) first studied the flow and obtained an asymptotic solution by neglecting the viscous terms. This is no true in neglecting the viscous terms within the total flow field. In particular it is pointed out that for a plate impulsively accelerated from rest to a constant velocity V0 that a similarity solution to the self-similar ODE is obtained which is noteworthy completely analytical.

Authors:

• Vai Kuong Sin
• Chon Kit Chio

Keywords:

• reversed stagnation-point flow
• similarity solutions
• analytical solution
• numerical solution

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