Similar Solutions and Integral Quantities of the Rotating Compressible Laminar Boundary Layer

The 'Falkner-Skan type' equations are established for a compressible laminar boundary layer on a rotating body in axial flow. The coupling between the axial and circumferential flows is analyzed and the effect of rotation rate upon the velocity profiles is shown. Similar solutions are used for the polynomial representation of the integral quantities. The shape factor H is computed as an example. Finally, the independence of the integral quantities on omega is established, leading to a very useful universality of the polynomial representation.