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The flow of the non-Newtonian fluids is very important for engineers, because of its several applications in various fields of science and engineering. In fluid mechanics a Blasius boundary layer (named after Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius), describes the steady two dimensional laminar boundary layer that forms a semi-infinite plate which is held parallel to a constant unidirectional flow.

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Marinca, V., Herisanu, N., Marinca, B. (2021). Blasius Problem. In: Optimal Auxiliary Functions Method for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75653-6_20

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