Three-dimensional compressible laminar boundary-layer flow

Abstract

Note presenting the equations governing the three-dimensional compressible laminar boundary layer with variable viscosity and thermal conductivity, which are shown to be simplified by the introduction of a two-component vector potential, the use of a transformation to change the equations into nearly incompressible form, and the use of a further transformation that changes the equations into nearly Cartesian form when a coordinate system appropriate to axial or conical symmetry is used. Problems involving conical potential flow are also discussed.