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Theoretical investigations into fluid mechanics in the 19th century were mainly based on the ideal fluid, i.e. a fluid which is inviscid and incompressible. It is only since the 20th century that the effects of viscosity and compressibility have been taken into account in any great way. In the flow of inviscid fluids, no tangential forces (shear stresses) exist between adjacent layers; only normal forces (pressures) do. This is equivalent to saying that an ideal fluid does not oppose a change in its shape with any internal resistance.
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Schlichting (Deceased), H., Gersten, K. (2017). Some Features of Viscous Flows. In: Boundary-Layer Theory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-52919-5_1
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