A Comparative Study of Curved Flow and Density-Stratified Flow

Abstract

A semi-empirical theory, used to predict buoyancy effects in a density-stratified and shear-driven flow, is also applied to the case of a boundary layer with curvature. Curved flow data are available and interesting in their own right since it can be seen that the Reynolds stress is reduced to zero at a critical “curvature Richardson” number predicted reasonably well by the theory.