Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
9509463 Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 2005 6 Pages PDF
Abstract
In this paper we show that a nonlinear boundary-value problem describing Blasius viscous flow of a kind of non-Newtonian fluid has an infinite number of explicit analytic solutions. These solutions are rather sensitive to the second-order derivative at the boundary, and the difference of the second derivatives of two obviously different solutions might be less than 10-1000. Therefore, it seems impossible to find out all of these solutions by means of current numerical methods. Thus, this nonlinear problem might become a challenge to current numerical techniques.
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