A hybrid computational approach to multiple-body viscous-flow problems: Application to large-eddy breakup in a boundary layer (Q1111412)

This paper contains a method which combines the stream function and the vorticity-velocity formulation of Navier-Stokes equations. The vorticity equation is solved by a finite difference method, but no proof of convergence is given. In some cases this scheme gives us some unexpected results [\textit{G. I. Pasa}, Stud. Ceret. Mat. 39, No.6, 543-544 (1987)]. The bodies are replaced by a bound vorticity distribution, to have a connected domain of flow. The authors claim that an exact solution is used for bound vorticity, and numerical details are given, although the Cauchy principle value is taken. A production of vorticity is considered on the periphery of the computational domain to have the usual boundary condition. The method is used to simulate the evolution of coherent bodies past a flat plate embedded in a viscous boundary layer.