The family of wake profiles formed from the Falkner–Skan boundary-layer solutions with negative pressure gradient, m, was shown in (Woodley and Peake, 1997) to be inviscidly absolutely unstable. However, due to numerical difficulties, the limit m→ 0 was not considered there, although the results that were found appeared to indicate that the double Blasius profile (m = 0) is absolutely unstable....

Competition between visual stimuli in the monkey parietal cortex Annegret Falkner We live in a complicated visual world where stimuli are constantly clamoring for our limited attentional resources. We use our eyes to explore the world and our brain must make moment-to-moment decisions about which points of space contain the most information or are associated with likely rewards. In our neural r...

Turbulence enhances the wall shear stress in boundary layers, significantly increasing drag on streamlined bodies. Other flow features such as free stream pressure gradients and streamwise layer growth also strongly influence local skin friction. In this paper, an angular momentum integral (AMI) equation is introduced to quantify these effects by representing them torques that alter shape of me...

Non-Newtonian flow from a wedge constitutes fundamental problem in chemical<br /> engineering systems and is relevant to processing of polymers, coating systems, etc. Motivated by such applications, the homotopy analysis method (HAM) was employed to<br obtain semi-analytical solutions for thermal convection boundary layer incompressible micropolar fluid two-dimensional body (wedge). Vi...

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