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Blasius Method

The Blasius method is the incompressible laminar flat-plate reference1:

\[ c_f = \frac{0.664}{\sqrt{\mathrm{Re}_x}} \]

where

\[ \mathrm{Re}_x = x\,\mathrm{Re}_1 \]

The Stanton number is computed with the Reynolds-analogy:

\[ C_h = \frac{c_f}{2\,\mathrm{Pr}^{2/3}} \]

References

  1. Blasius, H. (1908). Grenzschichten in Flussigkeiten mit kleiner Reibung. Zeitschrift fur Mathematik und Physik, 56, 1-37. ↩