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As a viscous flow passes a solid boundary such as a flatplate or a streamlined body, the influence of viscosity on the flow field is usually confined within a thin layer near the boundary. Outside this layer, the effect of the viscosity is vanishingly small, the fluid behaves like a perfect fluid. This physical picture suggests that the entire flow field can be divided into two domains, each of which can be treated separately for the purpose of simplifying the mathematical analysis, as shown in Fig. 13-1.
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Le Méhauté, B. (1976). The Boundary Layer, Flow in Pipes, Drag, and Added Mass. In: An Introduction to Hydrodynamics and Water Waves. Springer Study Edition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85567-2_13
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