Understanding the boundary layer

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In 1904, Ludwig Prandtl introduced an approach to understanding and analyzing flows around bodies that produced a massive breakthrough: the boundary layer. This concept would eventually lay down the foundations of modern aeronautical engineering, and today is at the base of most modern calculations of skin friction, heat transfer, and flow separation.

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