Introduction to Interactive Boundary Layer Theory

''Sobey includes recent work in a seamless manner... a very readable book'' -New ScientistThe triple deck structure shows how a perturbation to the thin layer of a fluid immediately adjacent (boundary layer) to an obstacle such as an aeroplane wing develops as an interaction between the pressure and a displacement of the boundary layer. The theory was a major advance in fluid mechanics at the end of the twentieth century. This book provides a graduate level description of some history of boundary layer flow and the application of the triple deck in fluid mechanics.