A study is made of the flow normal to the mainstream direction (cross flow) that takes place in three-dimensional ‘bounded’ turbulent boundary layers near a wall, i.e. boundary layers restricted by the presence of bounding surfaces normal to that wall. Such boundary layers are present in the flow through rows of blades in a turbo machine.
Analytical expressions for the cross-flow velocity profiles are derived for these ‘bounded’ boundary layers and are compared with experimental data.
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