The flow external to a non-Newtonian boundary layer

✍ Scribed by J.C. Slattery

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1962
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 227 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2509
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(62)85026-x

✦ Synopsis

For the irrotational flow of an incompressible non-Newtonian fluid the viscous terms in the equation of motion are not identically zero (unless the fluid moves as a solid body). This suggests that (except for flow past a flat plate with zero angle of incidence) a non-Newtonian boundary-layer solution based upon the assumption that the external flow can be represented by a potential flow will be a poorer approximation to reality than the corresponding solution for a Newtonian fluid.