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simple shear flow past a flat plate in an incompressible fluid of small
viscosity .
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<AUTHOR>
ting-yili
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department of aeronautical engineering, rensselaer polytechnic
institute
troy, n.y.
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<TEXT>
in the study of high-speed viscous flow past a two-dimensional body it
is usually necessary to consider a curved shock wave emitting from the
nose or leading edge of the body .  consequently, there exists an inviscid
rotational flow region between the shock wave and the boundary layer
.  such a situation arises, for instance, in the study of the hypersonic
viscous flow past a flat plate .  the situation is somewhat different
from prandtl's classical boundary-layer problem . in prandtl's
original problem the inviscid free stream outside the boundary layer is
irrotational while in a hypersonic boundary-layer problem the inviscid
free stream must be considered as rotational .  the possible effects of
vorticity have been recently discussed by ferri and libby .  in the present
paper, the simple shear flow past a flat plate in a fluid of small
viscosity is investigated .  it can be shown that this problem can again
be treated by the boundary-layer approximation, the only novel feature
being that the free stream has a constant vorticity .  the discussion
here is restricted to two-dimensional incompressible steady flow .
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