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We hope it is both appreciated and understood that the nondimensional number indicating the importance of viscosity in a definite flow is the Reynolds number Re, as defined in Eq. (1.80).
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Note that this is an example of an indicial equation and is a part of the procedure of developing ODE solutions using the method of Frobenius. A good treatment of this matter can be in books on ODEs (see the Bibliographical Notes).
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Regev, O., Umurhan, O.M., Yecko, P.A. (2016). Viscous Flows. In: Modern Fluid Dynamics for Physics and Astrophysics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3164-4_3
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