Steady laminar flow through a twisted pipe of elliptical cross-section (Q1086077)

Previous work by the author on a formal series method of solution for flows in pipes with slowly varying geometries which provides a basis for approximate perturbation solutions is applied to the specific example of flow in a slowly twisted pipe of elliptical cross-section. With the aid of the algebraic and symbolic manipulation programming language REDUCE the calculations to low order have been carried out to reveal some purely three-dimensional effects.