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Prandtl's boundary-layer hypothesis states that viscous effects at high Reynolds number are confined to

  • A.A thin layer at the surface, and the wake
  • B.The whole flow field equally
  • C.The region far upstream of the body
  • D.The stagnation point alone

Answer: A

Prandtl's 1904 insight was that at high Reynolds number the viscous terms matter only very near the wall, leaving the rest of the flow effectively inviscid. That division is what makes aerodynamics tractable: potential flow outside, a boundary-layer calculation within, and the two matched at their common edge.

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