Axisymmetric compressible boundary layer on a long thin moving cylinder

Abstract

The steady laminar boundary layer flow on a thin and isothermal moving cylinder in a viscous compressible fluid at rest is studied in this paper. The fluid considered is a model fluid in which ϱ∼ T −1 and μ∼ T ω . The transformed non-similar boundary layer equations are solved numerically using a very efficient numerical method for some values of ω and wall enthalpy g ω parameters. The skin friction coefficient and Nusselt number are calculated for Pr=0.7 and some values of ω and g ω