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On the flow near the trailing edge of a flat plate II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

K. Stewartson
K. Stewartson
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University College, London
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Consider an incompressible fluid of density p and kinematic viscosity v in an infinite two-dimensional domain. We assume that the fluid has a uniform velocity U∞, in the direction of the positive x*-axis of a rectangular Cartesian coordinate system Ox* y*, at large distances from a fixed flat plate of zero thickness which occupies the interval −l < x* < 0 of the line Ox*. Of special interest here is the structure of the flow when ε ≪ 1 where

Re being the Reynolds number of the flow. A first examination was made by Blasius (1908), using Prandtl's theory of the boundary layer, who found inter alia that the leading term of the drag D on one side of the plate is given by

the numerical factor being determined by Goldstein (1930).

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Mathematika , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , June 1969 , pp. 106 - 121
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Copyright © University College London 1969

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