Cairo University

Faculty of Engineering
Aerospace Department
3nd Year

Boundary Layer Theroy

Report on: Exact Blasius Solution and transformation problem

Submitted To: Dr. Hesham El-Banna

Name : Ahmed Ali Al-Sayed Al-Tahan BN: 9 Sec: 1

‫أحمد علي السيد الطحان‬ Date: / /20110/3/2015

Exact Blasius Solution
(1908): Flat Plate
Blasius assumed

Similarly
And used the definition of the stream
function

Replacing the definition of stream function,

we can show that the Prandtl Boundary
The Prandtl equation reduces to Layer reduces to, Single nonlinear ODE
𝑓(𝜂) ∗ 𝑓 ′′ (𝜂) + 2 ∗ 𝑓 ′′′ (𝜂) = 0
BC’s

No pressure gradient

From the analysis of order of magnitude

Note if we assumed at first that

𝑦 𝑈∞
𝜂= √ that would lead to the
𝑥 2𝜈𝑥
following Blasius equation which is
considered here in this report to be solved

We can easily show that the corresponding 𝑓(𝜂) ∗ 𝑓 ′′ (𝜂) + 𝑓 ′′′ (𝜂) = 0
stream function is

We can compute v, and all derivatives from

this definition easily. For instance
 ′ (𝜂) 𝑓 ′′ (𝜂)
1
𝑓
𝜂 𝑓(𝜂) = 𝜓 𝑢 1 2𝜈𝑥 𝜕𝑢
√2𝜈𝑈∞ 𝑥 = = √
𝑈∞ 𝑈∞ 𝑈∞ 𝜕

Maple Code

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References
[1] http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall09/cos323/precepts/ode_maple.html.
[2] http://www.maplesoft.com/support/help/maple/view.aspx?path=DEtools%2Fkovacicsols.
[3] http://www.maplesoft.com/support/help/Maple/view.aspx?path=dsolve/numeric.