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Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volume 42, 2010

Singular Perturbation Theory: A Viscous Flow out of Göttingen

Abstract

This review describes how singular perturbation theory grew out of Prandtl's fluid dynamical boundary-layer theory of 1904. Developments were centered at Göttingen until 1933, when research spread worldwide. After that, singular perturbations developed more rapidly as the subject became centered within applied mathematics.

Keyword(s): boundary layers, history, singular perturbations
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