Planar jet flow of a radiating gas

Propagation of a laminar jet of a thermodynamically equilibrious gray gas is examined in the boundary layer theory approximation. The one-dimensional radiative energy transport is accounted for in the P ₁ approximation of the spherical harmonic method. Numerical solution of the problem is made under additional simplifying assumptions for various values of the radiation parameters to illustrate the radiation effect. The method and the computational scheme used are applicable to the study of complex jet flows of a radiating gas.The author thanks Yu. P. Lun'kin for his assistance in posing the problem and for his continued interest in the study.