Viscous-Inviscid Interaction with Higher-Order Viscous-Flow Equations: Applications to Three-Dimensional Bodies.

A viscous inviscid interaction method for three dimensional flows, in which the partially parabolic Reynolds equations are coupled with an inviscid flow solution procedure in an interactive and iterative manner, is applied to two simple three dimensional bodies for which experimental data are available for comparison. The relative merits of interactive and global solution procedures are evaluation by comparing the viscous inviscid interaction solutions with noninteractive large domain solutions of only the viscous flow equations. Both methods yield satisfactory results, although the interaction solutions are found to be computationally more efficient for the cases considered. Keywords: Thick Three Dimensional Layer; Viscous Inviscid Interaction; Partially parabolic Equations; Computational Fluid Dynamics.