An explicit, totally analytic approximate solution for Blasius' viscous flow problems

International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 759-778

  Liao, Shi Jun ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

2D Blasius' viscous flow; Explicit analytic solution; Independent upon small parameters; Non linear differential equation; The homotopy analysis method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000494305     PISSN: 00207462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7462(98)00056-0     Document Type: Article

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