Numerical Approximations of Blasius Boundary Layer Equation

Abstract

The Blasius equation is a well-known third-order nonlinear ordinary differential equation, which arises in certain boundary layer problems
in the fluid dynamics. In the paper the solutions of the Blasius equation 2 f   ff   0 , with boundary conditions
f (0)  f (0)  0, f ()  1 are investigated by three numerical methods. The observed phenomena in numerical solutions of
previous published work are theoretically analyzed.