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On a Simple Method for Calculating LaminarBoundary Layers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

K. E. G. Wieghardt
K. E. G. Wieghardt*
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Formerly Admiralty Research Laboratory, Teddington, now at Hamburg University
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Summary

A simple one parametric method, due to A. Walz and based on the momentum and energy equations, for calculating approximately laminar boundary layers is extended to cover axi-symmetric flow as well as plane flow. The necessary computing work is reduced a little.

Another known method which requires still less computing work is also extended for axi-symmetric flow and, with the amendment of a numerical constant, proves adequate for practical purposes.

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Aeronautical Quarterly , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , May 1954, pp. 25 - 38
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1954

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