JET-PLATE INTERACTION FOR WEDGE-SHAPED PLATES OF ARBITRARY ANGLES

An investigation has been undertaken to study the problems of jet-plat e interaction through the method of hodograph transformation. The phys ical flow field is first transformed to a hodograph domain. By using p roperly selected flow parameters, the solution is established through numerical computations with rectangular grid in the hodograph plane. T he resulting plate configuration the free streamlines and the flow pro perties in the physical plane are subsequently obtained through direct numerical integration Jet flows toward wedge-shaped plates of arbitra ry angles are solved to demonstrate the ability of the method. To veri fy the solutions, momentum principle has been employed in the physical plane for all rest cases. It is found that the results obtained throu gh this method are satisfactory.