The Boundary Layer on a Flat Plate when the Main Stream Has Uniform Shear

摘要

The region behind a bow shock wave is associated with an inviscid rotational flow. This vorticity in the inviscid flow will in some way affect the boundary layer on the body. To provide some understanding of the effects on a viscous boundary layer of a free stream vorticity, the laminar boundary layer in a two-dimensional incompressible fluid of constant properties on a semi-infinite flat plate is studied, when the main stream has uniform shear.