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The boundary layer on a flat plate in a stream with uniform shear

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

J. D. Murray
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, University College London Now at Hertford College, Oxford.

Abstract

The incompressible laminar boundary layer on a semi-infinite flat plate is considered, when the main stream has uniform shear. A solution is obtained for the first two terms of an asymptotic solution for small viscosity. It is shown that one of the principal effects of free-stream vorticity is to introduce a modified pressure field outside the boundary-layer region.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1961 Cambridge University Press

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