Fox and McDonald's Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
9th Edition
ISBN: 9781118912652
Author: Philip J. Pritchard, John W. Mitchell
Publisher: WILEY
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Chapter 9, Problem 3P
For flow over a smooth plate, what approximately is the maximum length of the laminar boundary layer if Vo = 9.0 m/s in the irrotational uniform flow and the fluid is air? Water?
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