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 Viscous Flows
Navier-Stokes Equation, Vorticity, Stream Function | Exact Solutions | Drag on Spherical Particles | Creeping Flows | Nonspherical Particles

Hydrodynamic Forces and Torques for a Nonspherical Particle

Oblate Spheroid in a Uniform Flow

The solution satisfying both equations (27) and (28) is given as

(29)

where  is a constant. From (29) it follows that

(30)

The general solution to equation (30), which is the summation of the homogeneous and particular solutions, is given as

(31)

Using (31) in (22), the expression for the stream function becomes

(32)

The constant , , and  may now be determined by using the boundary conditions given by (17) and (18). These become

,   ,   and   (33)

The final expression for the stream function becomes

(34)

where .


Dr. Goodarz Ahmadi | Turbulence & Multiphase Fluid Flow Laboratory | Department of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering
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