Some new methods for numerically solving the compressible laminar boundary layer equations

Abstract

SUMMARYFour new methods are presented a method of accelerating the truncation error convergence, a fourth and fifth order difference scheme for discretizing the normal partial derivatives, high order quadrature formulae for integrating a stream function and a third order implicit scheme for treating the streamwise partial derivatives.These are seen to be effective in finding solutions to the boundary layer equations in which the step sizes are adaptively altered to meet an error bound.