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Boundary layer along the initial length of a flat plate at zero incidence with homogeneous suction

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An investigation has been made into the two-dimensional laminar incompressible boundary layer along the initial length of a semi-infinite flat plate at zero incidence with homogeneous suction. The momentum and the kinetic energy integral equations have been numerically integrated with the aid of a singly infinite system of boundary layer velocity profiles.

The results obtained are well in agreement with the known exact solution and the process of integration is simpler to be carried out by the use of a monoparametric family of velocity profiles. The method can be used to investigate the boundary layer along a flat plate with arbitrary suction starting either at the leading edge or at some point downstream.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, T. N. B. College, Bhagalpur (Bihar)

    S. S. Singh

  2. Ranchi University, Ranchi

    R. C. Choudhary (Reader in Mathematics)

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Communicated by Dr. B. R. Seth, F.A.Sc.

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Singh, S.S., Choudhary, R.C. Boundary layer along the initial length of a flat plate at zero incidence with homogeneous suction. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 70, 59–72 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03046608

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