ABSTRACT
This chapter considers several problems of this type, which can be solved in much the same way as some of the problems studied earlier. The methods of the boundary layer theory can be used not only for the investigation of magnetohydrodynamic phenomena in ordinary fluids but also in the case of the boundary layer in non-Newtonian flows, which is especially important for applications. The magnetic field applied to a conducting viscous flow may affect the process of separation of the boundary layer, as well as the speed with which perturbations propagate in a dilatable fluid. The chapter also considers the stationary boundary layer system for a plane-parallel conducting flow in the presence of magnetic and electric fields. A similar approach can be applied to the investigation of the corresponding nonstationary problem. The characteristics of the flow are assumed to be varying within the limits of applicability of the boundary layer equations.
