The Effects of Unsteady Potential Flow on Heated Laminar Boundary Layers in Water: Flow Properties and Stability

The Effects of Unsteady Potential Flow on Heated Laminar Boundary Layers in Water: Flow Properties and Stability

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The effects of unsteadiness and the stability of boundary-layer flows as governed by the Orr-Sommerfeld equation are discussed. The condition required for validity of the quasi-steady approximation of governing flow equations is that the ratio of diffusion time to flow time should be small.