Transport Phenomena _Lecture 35_R. Ravi

Lecture 35: Irrotational flow past a cylinder: solution of equation for the potential function 2-D irrotational flow of an incompressible fluid past a cylinder: Solution of the partial differential equation for the potential function by separation of variables; boundary conditions: free-stream and zero mass flux conditions. Discovery that no-slip boundary condition is not satisfied at the cylinder surface; implications of this result for irrotational flow of a linearly viscous fluid. References: R. Aris, Vectors, tensors and the equations of Fluid Mechanics; R. B. Bird, W. E. Stewart, E. N. Lightfoot, Transport Phenomena