| Abstract: | A study was made of self-similar flows in a magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer in the presence of a pressure gradient and with the blowing and suction of a conducting liquid. The region of the existence of self-similar solutions for  breakaway flow conditions, characterized by a friction at the wall equal to zero, was determined. The regions of a change in the determining parameters, with which nonbreakaway flows are established at impermeable and permeable surfaces, are indicated. It is noted that under diffusion flow conditions the self-similar equation of a magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer with fixed boundary conditions at the wall and at infinity permits an innumerable set of solutions. The article proposes a method for selecting a solution and indicates a calculating method for determining it. It demonstrates the possibility of a considerable broadening of the region of flows without breakaway with the imposition of electric and magnetic fields.Moscow. Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 3, pp. 38–46, May–June, 1972. |
