Boundary-Layer Flow Past a Semi-Infinite Wedge: The Falkner-Skan Problem
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In 1904 Prandtl showed that the effects of viscosity at a high Reynolds number could be represented by approximating the Navier–Stokes equations with the celebrated boundary-layer equations, which for two-dimensional steady flow reduce to:
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Contributed by: Housam Binous and Brian G. Higgins (June 2011)
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[1] L. G. Leal, Advanced Transport Phenomena: Fluid Mechanics and Convective Transport, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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