Design of plane channels and cascades without flow separation (Q1316791)

The paper deals with the important problem of the theory of separated flow, namely with the design of channels and bodies without separation. For designing divergent channels, airfoils, and turbomachinery cascades, when it is impossible to avoid a streamwise decrease in velocity on the boundaries, it is advisible to employ hydrodynamically expedient velocity distributions on the contour of the canonical domain. The value of velocity gradient should ensure unseparated flow at each point on the contour. Given examples are limited to plane incompressible flows. A very simple criterion of the Prandtl-Buri type for the appearance of separation is chosen. Presented results may also be useful for obtaining initial approximations in numeric methods for calculating two-dimensional flows.