This section covers lectures 21-23.
Readings
Textbooks
Reading in: Panton, Ronald L. Incompressible Flow. 4th ed. Wiley, 2013. ISBN: 9781118013434. [Preview with Google Books]
- Chapter 20: Boundary Layers
- 20.1: Blasius Flow ever a Flat Plate
- 20.2: Displacement Thickness
- 20.3: Von Kármán Momentum Integral
- 20.4: Von Kármán-Pohlhausen Approximate Method
- 20.5: Falkner-Skan Similarity Solutions
- 20.6: Arbitrary Two-Dimensional Lay: Crank-Nicolson Difference Method
Reading in: Kundu, Pijush K., and Ira M. Cohen. Fluid Mechanics. 6th ed. Academic Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780124059351.
- Chapter 9: Boundary Layers and Related Topics
- 9.1: Introduction
- 9.2: Boundary-Layer Thickness Definitions
- 9.3: Boundary-Layer on a Flat Plate: Blasius Solution
- 9.4: Falkner-Skan Similarity Solutions of the Laminar Boundary-Layer Equations
- 9.5: Von Karman Momentum Integral Equation
- 9.7: Transition, Pressure Gradients, and Boundary-Layer Separation
- 9.8: Flow Past a Circular Cylinder; Low Reynolds Numbers; Moderate Reynolds Numbers; High Reynolds Numbers
Additional Reading
- Anderson Jr., John D. "Ludwig Prandtl's Boundary Layer." (PDF) Physics Today 58, no. 12 (2005): 42–48.