AbstractThe results of an experimental study on compressible turbulent wall jets resulting from a normally impinging round jet are presented. A finite difference technique was used for the calculation of velocity and temperature profiles. The eddy transfer coefficients used were functions of the distance from the plate throughout the flow field of the wall jet. The nozzle exit Mach number ranged up to 0.85. The nozzle exit temperature to the ambient temperature ratio ranged up to 2.92. The applicability of the calculational method has been thoroughly checked for a region of flow extending up to 12 nozzle diameters from the axis of symmetry. Using the empirical eddy transfer coefficients presented in this paper only starting profiles are needed to generate the solution for any point in the wall jet flow field which is described by a system of parabolic (boundary layer) equations.