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The computation of high Reynolds number laminar separation has been one of the central issues in fluid mechanics over the past two decades. Laminar separation has eluded a description based on Prandtl’s boundary layer theory primarily due to the presence of the Goldstein [10J singularity at separation (see also Stewartson [28J). However, this state of affairs changed abruptly with the development of the tripledeck theory by Stewartson & Williams [27] and Neiland [14] for supersonic flows. Drawing upon Lighthill’s -[12] earlier work with viscous sublayers, Stewartson & Williams [27] were able to show that a boundary layer in a supersonic flow could “spontaneously” separate by setting up a local interaction between a viscous sublayer lying within the depths of the boundary layer and the local inviscid flow just outside the boundary layer. The work of Neiland [14] and Stewartson & Williams [27] introduced a very new concept to viscous flow theory, that of a freeinteraction. Prior to this time it had generally been thought that separation occurs due to a gradual reaction of the boundary layer to an externally imposed adverse pressure gradient.
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Rothmayer, A.P., Davis, R.T. (1987). Progress on the Calculation of Large-Scale Separation at High Reynolds Numbers. In: Hussaini, M.Y., Salas, M.D. (eds) Studies of Vortex Dominated Flows. ICASE NASA LaRC Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4678-7_8
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