Stokes flow of a micropolar fluid exterior to several non-intersecting closed surfaces, but contained by an exterior contour
✍ Scribed by Henry Power; Harold Ramkissoon
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 639 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0170-4214
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
The problem of determining the Stokes flow of a micropolar fluid exterior to several closed surfaces but contained by an exterior contour that encloses all the interior surfaces, is formulated as a system of linear Fredholm integral equations of the second kind. These integral equations are obtained when the velocity and microrotation vector fields are represented by a double‐layer potential with unknown density, and certain singular solutions of the Stokes' micropolar equations. This double‐layer potential is defined over the union of all the surfaces involved including the exterior contour. The singularities, corresponding to a concentrated force and concentrated couple located within each interior surface, give rise to force and torque whose magnitudes are linearly dependent on the unknown density of the double layer. It is shown that the system possesses a unique continuous solution when the boundaries are Lyapunov surfaces and the boundary data is continuous.