ON THE ASYMPTOTIC FORM OF THE STREAM FUNCTION FOR THE FLOW OF AN OSEEN-LIKE FLUID PAST A PARABOLIC CYLINDER,

Abstract

The asymptotic behavior of the flow at a large distance from a parabolic cylindrical obstacle immersed in the uniform flow of an incompressible viscous fluid is considered on the basis of a successive approximation method, with the Oseen solution as the first step. Only dominant terms are retained in the expression for the stream function. Four steps in the approximation procedure yield a parabolic displacement surface which for the degenerate case; namely, the semi-infinite flat plate, approaches very closely the Blasius result and thus demonstrates the validity of the Oseen type of successive approximations in dealing with the Navier-Stokes equations. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0655894

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  • Carl Kaplan

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  • Johns Hopkins University

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Differential Equations
  • Displacement
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Mathematics
  • Navier Stokes Equations

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  • Mathematics

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