Laminar boundary layer over a body of revolution at extremely high incidence

Results of exact, full three-dimensional solutions of the incompressible laminar boundary layer over a prolate spheroid at an extremely high incidence are presented. This extremely high incidence problem is characterized by features reflecting the predominance of the circumferential flow over the meridional flow and, more importantly, by a change of separation pattern from an open type to a closed type. These features include much larger circumferential skin friction than meridional skin friction and that the limiting streamlines are more closely oriented along the parallels.