Computation of attached three-dimensional turbulent boundary layers (Q1323005)

In the present embedded-function method, the velocity distribution across the entire wall layer is represented by analytic embedded functions; the outer-layer flow is calculated being subject to the condition that the numerical solution blends smoothly into the embedded wall-layer functions. As the computation proceeds downstream, the wall shear stress and the wall skew angle are obtained from algebraic formulae derived from a general asymptotic analysis. It is shown that on the order of a 50\% reduction of mesh points may be realized without any degradation in the accuracy of the computed results.