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The behaviour of a laminar compressible boundary layer near a point of zero skin-friction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

K. Stewartson
K. Stewartson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The Durham Colleges in the University of Durham
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Abstract

It is shown, with a high degree of certainty, that a general compressible laminar boundary layer can develop a singularity at a point of zero skin-friction only if the heat transfer at that point is zero.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 1962 , pp. 117 - 128
Copyright
© 1962 Cambridge University Press

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