On the viscous dissipation in the boundary layer of a high Prandtl number fluid in laminar flow over a flat plate (Q1062859)

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On the viscous dissipation in the boundary layer of a high Prandtl number fluid in laminar flow over a flat plate
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    On the viscous dissipation in the boundary layer of a high Prandtl number fluid in laminar flow over a flat plate (English)
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    An asymptotic expansion for large Prandtl number fluids has been obtained for the recovery factor in a laminar flow over a flat plate. The expression underestimates the recovery factor by no more than 1\% as long as the Prandtl number is greater than seven.
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    viscous dissipation
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    Dorodnitsyn-Howarth transformation
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    Blasius equation
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    asymptotic expansion
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    large Prandtl number fluids
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    recovery factor
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    laminar flow over a flat plate
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