A note on a Galerkin technique for integral equations in potential flows

DOI10.1007/BF00127668MaRDI QIDQ1822565zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Paul D. Sclavounos

Publication date 1987

Published in Journal of Engineering Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00127668

zbMATH Keywords

'collocation' pointbody boundarycollection of panelsGalerkin numerical solutionincompressible aerodynamics, acousticsintegral equationsintegrated hydrodynamic forcesmatrix equationpotential flowsrigid bodiessingularity distributionsource distributionsource-distribution methodsurface wavesvelocity potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Jets and cavities, cavitation, free-streamline theory, water-entry problems, airfoil and hydrofoil theory, sloshing (76B10) Boundary-layer theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N20)

Review text

The properties are studied of a Galerkin numerical solution of integral equations for an assumed singularity distribution or a velocity potential arising in potential flows around rigid bodies in incompressible aerodynamics, acoustics and surface waves. The body boundary is approximated by a collection of panels and the integral equation is averaged over each panel instead of being enforced at a 'collocation' point. For the resulting Galerkin synthesis the matrix equation obtained for the source distribution is the exact transpose of the corresponding equation obtained for the velocity potential on the body boundary, a property known to hold for the continuous operators. Moreover, the integrated hydrodynamic forces experienced by the body are shown to be identically predicted by the source-distribution method or by directly solving for the velocity potential.

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