The Lie-group shooting method for boundary layer equations in fluid mechanics

Journal of Hydrodynamics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 101-106

  Chang, Chih Wen ^a   Chang, Jiang Ren ^a   Liu, Chein Shan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blasius equation; boundary value problem; estimation of missing initial condition; Falkner Skan equation; Lie group shooting method

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; FLUID MECHANICS;

BLASIUS EQUATION; BOUNDARY LAYER EQUATIONS; ESTIMATION OF MISSING INITIAL CONDITION; FALKNER-SKAN EQUATIONS; FAST CONVERGENCE SPEED; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LIE-GROUP SHOOTING METHOD; WEIGHTING FACTORS;

LIE GROUPS;

EID: 85048674672     PISSN: 10016058     EISSN: 18780342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03400431     Document Type: Article

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