Rotating Compressible Flow Over an Infinite Disk

The laminar boundary layer in rotating compressible flow over an infinite rotating disk is considered for various ratios of disk-to-infinity rotation rates and temperatures. It is shown that a similarity solution exists for T_d/T_∞ < (Ω_d/Ω_∞)² and linearized solutions near this limit are presented. Numerical solutions for flow and temperature are given for representative values of the parameters, near and far from the limit.