1964•Journal of Fluid MechanicsRequires access
Rotational stagnation point flow
W Hayes
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Abstract
The constant-density inviscid rotational flow in the neighbourhood of a general stagnation point on a wall is investigated. In all but very special cases, the solution is non-analytic and the vorticity at the wall is infinite; the stagnation streamline is tangent to the wall at the stagnation point; stagnation points of saddlepoint type cannot exist. The boundary-layer equations corresponding to the inviscid solutions studied are presented.