Keywords:

continuum assumption; internal energy; interface between phases; thermodynamics; Euler’s equation; Gibbs-Duhem equation; perfect gas; Maxwell relations; linear shear flow; vorticity characteristics; rate-of- strain characteristics; rate of expansion; streamline coordinates; surface forces; stress-tensor; thermal-energy equations; Newtonian fluids; Navier-Stokes equations; non-Newtonian liquids; no-slip condition; Fourier’s heat-conduction law; local fluid motion; incompressible flow; pressure-driven flow; plane Couette flow; falling film; Rayleigh problem; dimensional analysis; blower analysis; number of primary dimensions; Bridgman’s equation; generalized Millikan argument; dynamic similarity; Couette flow; energy-equation paradox; exact solutions; Stokes oscillating plate; ideal line vortex; Oseen vortex; stagnation-point flow; Hiemenz flow; Kármán’s viscous pump; vorticity dynamics; vorticity diffusion; vorticity intensification; Hill’s spherical vortex; Kelvin’s theorem; Helmholtz’s theorem; integral vorticity equations; asymptotic analysis methods; bubble; nonuniform expansions; matched asymptotic expansions; composite expansions; boundary layers; conformal transformations; Joukowski transformation; airfoil geometry; gravity waves; three-dimensional ideal flows; Rankine nose; Blasius flow; Kármán-Pohlhausen approximate method; Falkner-Skan similarity solutions; Crank-Nicolson difference method; Kelvin-Helmholtz inviscid shear-layer instability; Orr-Sommerfeld equation; Taylor instability; turbulent flows; equilibrium boundary layers; wall-layer turbulence; jets; wakes; free shear layers; Runge-Kutta integration; boundary-layer analysis