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Further Development of a Boundary Layer Profile for a given Pressure Distribution*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

H. Görtler
H. Görtler*
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Air Ministry Translation No. 1051. †
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The following paper forms a continuation of a recent work by Prandtl (I) “On the Calculation of Boundary Layers.” It deals with the problem of developing in detail the method, proposed in that paper, for continuing a given velocity profile in a laminar boundary layer when the pressure distribution is given; the method is tried out in practice by numerical evaluation of an example.

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Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 45 , Issue 362 , February 1941 , pp. 35 - 50
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1954

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Footnotes

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Z.A.M.M., Vol. 19, No. 3, June, 1939, pp. 129-140.

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