White, Frank M. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island.
Last reviewed:November 2019
- Boundary-layer approximations
- Boundary layers in duct flow
- Flat-plate flow
- Momentum and displacement thickness
- Boundary-layer separation
- Instability and transition
- Turbulent boundary layers
- Compressible boundary layers
- Boundary-layer control
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That portion of a fluid flow, near a solid surface, where shear stresses are significant and the inviscid-flow assumption may not be used. All solid surfaces interact with a viscous fluid flow because of the no-slip condition, a physical requirement that the fluid and solid have equal velocities at their interface. Thus a fluid flow is retarded by a fixed solid surface, and a finite, slow-moving boundary layer is formed.
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