Abstract
Abstract The purpose of this work is to study the fields of average values of velocity in a turbulent air jet propagating along a smooth cylindrical surface with an adjustable nozzle width being b, the curvature parameter SR and Re number on both convex and concave surfaces. To identify basic patterns of physical phenomena occurring in the boundary layer, it has been established that in universal coordinates, the wall velocity profiles have a universal nature in the region of a change in the curvature parameter 0 ⩽ SR ⩽ |±0.12|, and virtually coincide with the velocity profiles of a turbulent boundary layer on a flat plate in a uniform flow past, except for the velocity peak region. This is due to the fact that the longitudinal pressure gradient is 104 ÷ 105 times lower than transverse pressure gradient. According to our data, it has been established that the excess static pressure near the streamlined surface with a distance from the nozzle and an increase in jet thickness can reach up to 30–40% of the velocity head.