Streaming Flow past a Semi-Infinite Wedge - The Falkner-Skan Solutions

It is in fact the distance from the leading edge of the plate that provides the relevant measure of the relative importance of viscous and inertia terms in the equation 

Indeed, we have already seen that the solution breaks down as x -x 0. 

STREAMING FLOW PAST A SEMI-INFINITE WEDGE -THE FALKNER-SKAN SOLUTION 

The conclusion from the previous paragraph is that similarity solutions of the momentum boundary-layer equations should not generally be expected. An interesting question is whether similarity solutions can be obtained in any case other than the flat plate problem in the previous section. To answer this question, we start with the boundary-layer equations in their most general form  

The only distinction between bodies of different geometry is the function ue(x). Thus the question we wish to answer is whether similarity solutions exist for functions ue(x) other than ue(x) = const (the flat plate problem). 

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D. Streaming Flow Past a Semi-Infinite Wedge - The Falkner-Skan Solution... 

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