Laminar Subsonic, Supersonic, and Transonic Boundary-Layer Flow past a Flat Plate

摘要

A boundary-layer formulation is developed for the low-Mach-number limit. Self-similar low-Mach-number Falkner-Skan solutions are found for flow past a wedge. From computation of both this low-Mach-number-limit solution and the full compressible boundary-layer equations, it is shown that laminar transonic boundary-layer flow past a constant temperature flat plate may be accurately calculated using the simpler low-Mach-number-limit solution.