In the preceeding paper by the present authors, an incompressible turbulent plane jet curved under the influence of constant pressure differences across it is treated by the use of a small perturbation method with a small parameter expressed as a power function of the streamwise coordinate. Referring to the calculateds results it is inferred that the constant eddy viscosity assumption included in the SAWYER's expression for the shear stress, gives a pseudo-curvature effect in the second order solution, resulting in less symmetrical velocity distributions unlike the experimental observations.
The present paper considers the same problem using almost the same method as in the previous one, with an eddy viscosity expression simulating the lateral turbulence intensity measured about the linear jet, giving rather symmetrical velocity profiles in the whole flow field of the curved jet. And an empirical constant in the SAWYER's expression is estimated to be about 5 by the comparison of the calculated angle between the streamlines and the locus of the maximum velocity point with the measured value.
Besides it is shown that the two zero positions of the shear stress and the velocity gradient do not fall on one point in this flow, the former shifts to the low pressure side and the latter to the otherside, and it is also shown approximately that the minimum static pressure in each cross section appears within the jet region and its value rises gradually downstream.
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