Irrotational Stokes flow in three system of coordinates

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Authors E. Protopapas

Publication date 16 July 2021

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Second-order elliptic equations (35J15) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07)

Abstract: Irrotational flow is described with the second order elliptic partial differential equation $E^{2}psi=0,$ where $psi$ is the function to be derived and $E^2$ is the Stokes operator. In the present paper we derive the solution of $E^{2}psi=0$ in three axisymmetric system of coordinates: the parabolic, the tangent sphere and the cardioid. We prove that Stokes equation separates variables in the parabolic coordinate system, but it R-separates variables in the other two. At the end of this manuscript we summarize all the known results for the 0-eigenspace of $E^2$ in axisymmetric system of coordinates.

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