Simple analytic approximations for the Blasius problem

DOI10.1016/j.physd.2015.08.003zbMath1364.76040OpenAlexW1203840995MaRDI QIDQ2396248

John P. Boyd, Roberto Iacono

Publication date: 7 June 2017

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2015.08.003

zbMATH Keywords

boundary layerBlasius equationgeneralized Padé approximantsintegral iteration scheme

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Theoretical approximation of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34A45) Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects (76D10)

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