On the Calculation of Potential Flow about a Body in an Unbounded Fluid.

Abstract

This study is concerned with the problem of calculating potential flow about a nonlifting body in an unbounded fluid. Several simple explicit approximations for the velocity potential are obtained and investigated numerically. Results of calculations are presented for the simple cases of potential flows due to translations of ellipsoids and ogives. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA089834

Entities

People

  • Francis Noblesse
  • George Triantafyllou

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bodies
  • Ellipsoids
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Geometric Forms
  • Integral Equations
  • Integrals
  • Marine Engineering
  • Military Research
  • Naval Architecture
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Potential Flow
  • Thin Wings
  • Translations
  • Two Dimensional

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