Calculating shear in a laminar boundary layer (Fluid Dynamics with Olivier Cleynen)
Channel: Olivier Cleynen
Date: 2020-07-09

How to calculate the shear force exerting on a flat plate on which a laminar boundary layer is developing.


Unfortunately, as reported by Natalia Santiago below, the final calculation is wrong by a factor 2: it should be  0,1056 N and not 0,205 N. The general expression is otherwise correct.



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