Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-theoretical-mechanics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2010/a/2/b/solution

For the proposed form,
Matching the outer velocity requires . The convective and outer-pressure terms have order , while has order . Equality of exponents gives
The two terms containing cancel in , leaving . Since , the reduced equation is
The wall and matching conditions become . This establishes a consistent similarity reduction; existence of an actual profile is a separate boundary-value question for a particular choice of parameters.

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