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The existence and uniqueness of a similarity solution of boundary-layer theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

S. N. Brown
S. N. Brown
Affiliation:
University College, Gower Street, London, W.C.1.
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Extract

When a viscous incompressible fluid with uniform conditions at upstream infinity flows past a paraboloid of revolution, the boundary-layer equations admit of a similarity solution which leads to the ordinary differential equation (see Miller [1])

with boundary conditions

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Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , June 1971 , pp. 14 - 19
Copyright
Copyright © University College London 1971

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References

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