Comment on ‘generalized potential flow theory and direct calculation of velocities applied to the numerical solution of the Navier–Stokes and the Boussinesq equations’

✍ Scribed by S. Abdallah; S. Deutsch

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 123 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0271-2091
• DOI: 10.1002/fld.1650091009

✦ Synopsis

In a recent paper a generalized potential flow theory and its application to the solution of the Navier-Stokes equation are developed.' The purpose of this comment is to show that the analysis presented in that paper is in general not correct. We note that the theoretical development of Reference 1 is in fact an extensionalthough not cited-of some work first done by Hawthorne for steady inviscid flow.' Hawthorne's solution is correct, and his analysis, which we briefly describe, provides a useful introduction to this note.