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On the existence of solution of the Greenspan-Carrier equation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

H. P. Heinig
Affiliation:
Department of MathematicsMcMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
K. Kuen Tam
Affiliation:
Department of MathematicsMcGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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We are concerned with the flow of a viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid of constant properties past a semi-infinite rigid plate. The governing boundary layer equations were derived by Greenspan and Carrier [2] in 1959. Numerical solutions of these equations subject to different boundary conditions have been considered by Stewartson and Wilson [5], Wilson [8], and recently by Bramley [1].

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1973

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