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            An Improved Shooting Method Applied to the Blasius Problem
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            In the present notebook, the author has found a new way to solve split boundary value problems using the shooting technique. The new approach is based on NDSolve`StateData and is more than two times faster than the previous approach based on the work of Professor Brian Higgins, U C Davis. The two approaches are successfully applied to solve the Blasius problem.
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            Blasius problem, fluid mechanics, shooting method, NDSolve`StateData
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  | blasius.nb (43.6 KB) - Mathematica Notebook [for Mathematica 5.2] |  
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