Home > Wiki > Wall shear stress

Wall shear stress

From CFD-Wiki

Revision as of 13:47, 18 December 2008 by AcellIcotr (Talk | contribs)

(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

Jump to: navigation, search

liormo The wall shear stress, $\tau_w$ , is given by:

$\tau_w = \mu \left(\frac{\partial u}{\partial y} \right)_{y=0}$

Where $\mu$ is the dynamic viscosity, $u$ is the flow velocity parallell to the wall and $y$ is the distance to the wall.

Retrieved from "https://openfoam.cfd-online.com/Wiki/Wall_shear_stress"

Views

My wiki

Log in

wiki search

wiki toolbox