Abstract
Summary An alternative method of treating the boundary conditions for wing and body flow problems is developed and a detailed analysis for the flow around two-dimensional aerofoils is given. The basis of the method is the concept of an analytic continuation of the exterior flow to give a fictitious interior flow and a modified problem which can be solved using the ideas of thin-wing theory. The detailed analysis for flows described by the linear Prandtl-Glauert potential equation is given. The results obtained for several examples are satisfactory. The application of the theory to continuous and discontinuous transonic flows is outlined.

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