CXLIV. The boundary layer in three dimensional flow.—Part II. The flow near a stagnation point

Abstract

The equations of boundary layer flow in the vicinity of a stagnation point on a general (three dimensional) surface are discussed and shown to be reducible to a pair of simultaneous ordinary third-order differential equations containing a single parameter c which is determined by the mainstream flow. The variation of c can be effectively limited to the range from 0 (corresponding to two dimensional flow) to 1 (corresponding to the axial flow past a body of revolution), and solutions have been computed for the cases c=0·25, 0·50, 0·75 and are tabulated below. A series expansion useful for small c is also given.