Boundary integral methods

DOI10.1007/978-3-7091-2594-6_7MaRDI QIDQ4828635zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 23 November 2004

Published in Drop-Surface Interactions (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2594-6_7

free-surface flow Green's identity viscous potential flow

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Other free boundary flows; Hele-Shaw flows (76D27) Boundary element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M15)

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This is largely an expository article on boundary integral methods as applied in fluid dynamics, focusing especially on free-surface flows with negligible viscous effects (the so-called viscous potential flows). For this, after presenting the governing equations and explaining the boundary conditions, the author introduces a general inviscid boundary integral formulation based on Green's identity, then the source and dipole formulations, as well as the relations among the different formulations. The special features of inviscid two-dimensional and axisymmetric flows, taking into account weak viscous effects, are also briefly discussed in this context. The article concludes with a short introduction to the boundary integral method for Stokes flows, i.e. when viscous effects are dominant. Though the article is not intended to be fully comprehensive and the reader is often referred to the literature, I found this article masterly written by a competent author and believe that the readers (including new-comers to the field) will gain a clear impression of the themes here discussed. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1031.76003].

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