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It is shown that a refinement of the Squire-Eckert approximation for the thermal convection in laminar boundary layers leads to better agreement with the rigorous solution, due to Schuh, than the Saunders approximation, used in our first paper.
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Merk, H.J., Prins, J.A. Thermal convection in laminar Boundary layers II. Appl. sci. Res. 4, 195–206 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03184951
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