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The stability of small travelling-wave disturbances in the flow over a flat plate is discussed. An iterative method is used to generate an asymptotic series solution in inverse powers of the Reynolds number R x = Ux / v to the power one half. The neutral-stability boundaries given by the first two terms of this series are obtained and compared with experimental data. It is shown that the parallel flow approximation leads to a valid solution at very large Reynolds numbers.
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