Similarity solutions of the two-dimensional unsteady boundary-layer equations
- 1 July 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 216, 537-559
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112090000520
Abstract
The method of Lie group transformations is used to derive all group-invariant similarity solutions of the unsteady two-dimensional laminar boundary-layer equations. A new method of nonlinear superposition is then used to generate further similarity solutions from a group-invariant solution. Our results are shown to include all the existing solutions as special cases. A detailed analysis is given to several classes of solutions which are also solutions to the full Navier–Stokes equations and which exhibit flow separation.Keywords
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