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The couple on a rotating spheroid in a slow stream

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

L. Sowerby  and
L. Rosenhead
L. Sowerby
Affiliation:
Department of Applied MathematicsThe University, Liverpool
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Abstract

The problem considered here is to determine the couple required to maintain the steady rotation about its axis of symmetry of an oblate spheroid which is placed in a uniform stream of viscous fluid moving parallel to this axis. The conditions of flow are assumed to be such as to permit the use of Oseen's approximation in the equations of motion. An expression in terms of spheroidal wave functions is derived for the transverse component of velocity in the fluid, and from this the expression for the couple is deduced. The disk rotating about the normal through its centre is considered as a special case, and some numerical results are given for certain values of a Reynolds number. A comparison is made, and agreement found, with results obtained by Jeffery in a previous paper which treated the case in which the mainstream was at rest.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , April 1953 , pp. 327 - 332
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1953

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