Two-Dimensional Problems of Minimal Resistance in a Medium of Positive Temperature

Authors Alexander Plakhov, Delfim F. M. Torres

Publication date 8 April 2004

Optimality conditions for free problems in one independent variable (49K05) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Collision of rigid or pseudo-rigid bodies (70F35) Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H99)

Abstract: We study the Newton-like problem of minimal resistance for a two-dimensional body moving with constant velocity in a homogeneous rarefied medium of moving particles. The distribution of the particles over velocities is centrally symmetric. The problem is solved analytically; the minimizers are shown to be of four different types. Numerical results are obtained for the physically significant case of gaussian circular distribution of velocities, which corresponds to a homogeneous ideal gas of positive temperature.

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