Integral equation formulation for the creeping flow of an incompressible viscous fluid between two arbitrarily closed surfaces, and a possible mathematical model for the brain fluid dynamics (Q1119100): Difference between revisions

The problem of determining the slow viscous flow of a fluid between two arbitrarily closed surfaces is formulated exactly as a system of linear Fredholm integral equations of the second kind for a distribution of Stresslets over the two closed surfaces plus a pair of singularities (Stokeslet and Rotlet) located outside of the flow region, singularities with strengths depending linearly upon the unknown density of the surface Stresslets. Using an analysis similar to the one developed by \textit{O. A. Ladyzhenskaya} [The mathematical theory of viscous incompressible flow (1963; Zbl 0121.427); (1961; Zbl 0106.394)] to study the exterior and interior Stokes' flow bounded by a single closed surface, we show that the integral equation proposed here to solve the Stokes' flow between two arbitrarily closed surfaces possesses a unique continuous solution when the boundaries are Lyapunov surfaces and the velocity data on the boundary surface are continuous. Based upon the above results we develop a possible mathematical model for the flow of the cerebrospinal fluid through the subarchnoid spaces, passing out over the surface of the brain.