Method of mass-average quantities for the boundary layer in an outer flow with transverse nonuniformity

An engineering method is proposed for calculating the friction and heat transfer through a boundary layer in which a nonuniform distribution of the velocity, total enthalpy, and static enthalpy is specified across the streamlines at the initial section x₀. Such problems arise in the vortical interaction of the boundary layer with the high-entropy layer on slender blunt bodies, with sudden change of the boundary conditions for an already developed boundary layer (temperature jump, surface discontinuity), and in wake flow past a body, etc.Notation x, y longitudinal and transverse coordinates - u,, H, h gas velocity, stream function, total and static enthalpy - p,,, pressure, density, viscosity, Prandtl number - , q friction and thermal flux at the body surface - r(x), (x) body surface shape and boundary layer thickness - V, M freestream velocity and Mach number - u⁽⁰⁾(x₀,), H⁽⁰⁾(x₀,), h⁽⁰⁾(x₀,) parameter distributions at initial section - u⁽⁰⁾(x,), h⁽⁰⁾(x,), h⁽⁰⁾(x,) profiles of quantities in outer flow in absence of friction and heat transfer at the surface of the body The indices v=0, 1 relate to plane and axisymmetric flows - , w, b, relate to quantities at the outer edge of the inner boundary layer, at the body surface in viscid and nonviscous flows, and in the freestream, respectively. The author wishes to thank O. I. Gubanov, V. A. Kaprov, I. N. Murzinov, and A. N, Rumynskii for discussions and assistance in this study.