ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOUR OF FREE CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER FLOWS OF NEWTONIAN FLUIDS PAST A VERTICAL FLAT PLATE WITH SUCTION/INJECTION

Abstract

This paper deals with the asymptotic behaviors of the solutions of Falkner-Skan equations governing the free convective boundary layer flows of Newtonian fluids past a vertical flat plate with suction/injection as the independent variable η tends to infinity; the discussion being based on the asymptotic integrations of second order linear differential equations. It has been found that the principal solutions exhibit asymptotic nature as η → ∞ , whereas corresponding linearly independent solution does not.