On the viscous flow past a sphere: A simplified description

DOI10.1016/S1007-5704(99)90020-5zbMath0924.35105OpenAlexW1970492999MaRDI QIDQ1303304

Shi-Jun Liao

Publication date: 27 September 1999

Published in: Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s1007-5704(99)90020-5

zbMATH Keywords

analytic solutionsanalytic approximationviscous flow past a spheredrag coefficient formulas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20)

Cites Work

• An explicit, totally analytic approximate solution for Blasius' viscous flow problems
• Expansions at small Reynolds numbers for the flow past a sphere and a circular cylinder
• A uniformly valid analytic solution of two-dimensional viscous flow over a semi-infinite flat plate
• On the flow past a sphere at low Reynolds number

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