Generalized fundamental solutions for unsteady viscous flows

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2001 May;63(5 Pt 1):051201. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.63.051201. Epub 2001 Apr 6.

Abstract

A number of closed-form fundamental solutions for generalized unsteady Oseen and Stokes flows associated with arbitrary time-dependent translational and rotational motions have been developed. These solutions are decomposed into two parts corresponding to a longitudinal wave and a transversal wave. As examples of application, the hydrodynamic forces acting on a sphere and on a circular cylinder translating in an unsteady rotating flow field at low Reynolds numbers are calculated using the generalized fundamental solutions.