Transonic flows through channels so narrow that the classical boundary layer approach fails are considered. As a consequence the properties of the inviscid core and the viscosity dominated boundary layer region can no longer be determined in subsequent steps but have to be calculated simultaneously. The resulting viscous inviscid interaction problem for weakly three dimensional laminar flows is formulated for perfect gases under the requirement that the channel is sufficiently narrow so that the flow outside the viscous wall layers becomes planar in the leading order approximation. Representative solutions for subsonic as well as for supersonic flows disturbed by three dimensional surface mounted obstacles will be presented. In the present paper viscous inviscid interactions of steady weakly three dimensional transonic flows in narrow channels are considered which are triggered, for example, by a shallow deformation of the channel walls. Using asymptotic analysis for large Reynolds number Re =ũ rL /ν 1 Kluwick and Gittler, assuming two dimensional steady flows of a perfect gas, showed that a consistent interaction theory can be formulated in which the flow inside the inviscid core region is almost one-dimensional, [2]. The former theory can be extended to the weakly three dimensional case if the heightsH andh of the channel and the surface mounted obstacle are of orders 3L and 7L and if the length ∆ X and width ∆ Z of the obstacle are of orders 3L and 2L with = Re −1/12 . Hereũ r ,L andν denote the flow velocity in the core region just upstream of the local interaction region, a characteristic length associated with the unperturbed boundary layer adjacent to the channel wall and a reference value of the kinematic viscosity. It turns out, that the flow in the core region is, in contrast to the two dimensional case, almost planar.The interaction region exhibits a triple deck structure. As in the classical triple deck theory, e.g. see [3], the role of the main deck is to transfer the displacement effects excerted by the lower deck unchanged to the upper deck and to transfer the resulting pressure disturbances again unchanged back to the lower deck. Here, the fluid motion is governed by a weakly three dimensional and incompressible form of the boundary layer equationswhere (X, Y, Z), (U, V, W ) and P denote Cartesian coordinates parallel to the free stream direction, normal to the channel wall and lateral to the free stream direction, the corresponding velocity components and the pressure. All quantities are suitable scaled. The boundary conditions include the no slip condition on the channel walls, the requirement that the unperturbed velocity profile is recovered in the limit X → −∞ and a matching condition between the lower and main deck for large Ywhere − A(X, Z) denotes the perturbation of the displacement thickness caused by the interaction process. The flow in the upper deck is a quasi planar flow weakly perturbed by the boundary layer displacement. As a result, pressure disturbances resulting from the bounda...