The Turbulent Wall Jet Measurements and Modeling

Abstract

The turbulent wall jet, even limiting attention to the topographically simple cases beloved of academics, arguably provides more puzzles for those seeking an ordered set of rules to describe turbulence than any other class of turbulent shear layer. Formally, we can regard a wall jet as a boundary layer in which, by virtue of the initially supplied momentum, the velocity over some region in the shear layer exceeds that in the free stream. Wall jets are of great and diverse engineering importance. While some of the best known and most challenging applications lie in the field of advanced airfoil design, these aerodynamic roles are far outweighed in number and, probably, in economic importance by the use of wall jets in problems of heating, cooling or ventilating-areas where traditionally design has proceeded unfettered by any deep concern about the turbu­ lence structure of the flows in question. Two major industrial applications are the film-cooling of the lining walls of gas-turbine combustion chambers and of the leading stages of