Book Description

In this report the integral method is employed to investigate some effects of compressibility, heat transfer, mass transfer, and streamwise pressure gradient in boundary layers over slender bodies of revolution, where the boundary layer thickness is not necessarily small compared to the body radius. The results for zero pressure gradient without mass transfer are compared with those of other investigators in the low-speed case and in the adiabatic-surface case. These flows generally produce nonsimilar profiles. A special case of zero pressure gradient with mass transfer, which yields a similar solution, is solved. For flows with and without pressure gradients and mass transfer, special conditions which produce similar profiles are derived. For low-speed flow with no mass transfer but with pressure gradients, a set of nonsimilar soultions is presented.