Solution of a three-dimensional boundary-layer flow with separation.

A method of calculating accurate solutions of the three-dimensional laminar boundarylayer equations has been developed. The method is applied to a problem that exhibits interesting crossflow phenomena, such as a flow reversal driven by crossflow convective terms and crossflow influences with zero freestream crossflow velocity. The method of solution used is an implicit finite difference scheme, and the stability and convergence properties of this scheme seemed to be good. Also, the important question of initial conditions for threedimensional boundary-layer flow is discussed, and a method of obtaining initial conditions is derived.