Paper 1, Section II, B
Part II, 2011
The steady two-dimensional boundary-layer equations for flow primarily in the direction are
A thin, steady, two-dimensional jet emerges from a point at the origin and flows along the -axis in a fluid at rest far from the -axis. Show that the momentum flux
is independent of position along the jet. Deduce that the thickness of the jet increases along the jet as , while the centre-line velocity decreases as .
A similarity solution for the jet is sought with a streamfunction of the form
Derive the nonlinear third-order non-dimensional differential equation governing , and write down the boundary and normalisation conditions which must be applied.