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    Abstract
I The impulsively started circular cylinder
II The generation of separation
    II.1 Vorticity dynamics of separation
    II.2 The effect of small viscosity
    II.3 Numerical solution of the full problem
    II.4 Asymptotic expansion
III Physical interpretation
IV Nonslipping separation
V Particle explosions
VI Downstream slipping separation
VII Additional observations
    VII.1 Comparison with some experimental results
    VII.2 Kelvin-Helmholtz break-up of the feeding sheet
    VII.3 Separation by wave steepening
    VII.4 The small time expansion revisited
    VII.5 General form of the semi-similar solutions
    VII.6 Wang's equivalence principle
    VII.7 The exact solutions in Lagrangian coordinates
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Appendices
    A The Lagrangian transformation formulae
    B Remarks abou the differential equations of Chapter II
    C Handling of the semi-infinite eta-region
    D An improvement in the accuracy for small times
    E Finite difference formulae and iterative procedure
    F The generation of the singularity revisited
    G The unsteady boundary layer singularity revisited
    H The inviscid vortex sheet near a separation point
    I Numerical viscous-inviscid interaction solution for upstream slipping separation
    J Integration of the similarity solution for downstream slipping separation
    K The "exact solutions" the Lagrangian way
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