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

Incompressible Viscous Flows

Spherical Coordinates

Spherical coordinate system is shown in Figure 4. Here

Figure 4. Schematics of spherical coordinate system.

Consider the case when

Let

That is

or

The vorticity equation will reduce to

where



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