Accession Number:

AD0262483

Title:

A BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEMS OF BOUNDARY LAYER RESEARCH

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

ADVISORY GROUP FOR AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PARIS (FRANCE)

Personal Author(s):

• SCHLICHTING, H.

Report Date:

1960-04-01

Pagination or Media Count:

32.0

Abstract:

The progress in the field of boundary layer research in recent years is briefly surveyed. The following items are treated to some extent stability and transition, turbulent boundary layers, three-dimensional boundary layers, boundary layer control, and boundary layers in hypersonic flow. In the concluding section the unsolved boundary layer problems for incompressible flow are reviewed. Author

Descriptors:

• *BOUNDARY LAYER
• *BOUNDARY LAYER CONTROL
• *HYPERSONIC FLOW
• *STABILITY
• *TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER
• COMPRESSIBLE FLOW
• MODEL TESTS
• SUPERSONIC FLOW
• WIND TUNNELS

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE