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    Mathematical results for slipping flows past a cylinder or a sphere embedded in a porous medium

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    2015-07
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    Alshehri, Nada
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1969.6/643
    Abstract
    Flow past a circular cylinder or a sphere embedded in a porous medium is investigated mathematically by treating porous matrix as an incompressible fluid. Closed form analytic solutions for the fourth order scalar boundary-value problems for Ψ (r, θ) - known as the Stokes stream function - are obtained by using Navier-slip conditions. Our exact results for Ψ (r, θ) capture flow fields prevailing in the vicinity of a cylinder/sphere suspended in a uniform or a shear flow field. All the physical quantities computed from our solutions depend on two key parameters, namely, δ (the effective permeability) and ζ (slip coefficient). Flow separation and velocity overshoot behavior are found for certain values of δ and ζ. The force acting on the cylinder/sphere is calculated in each case. It is observed that the presence of slip decreases the force on the boundary. Our results show that in the limit δ -> 0, there is no solution to the two-dimensional boundary-value problem, confirming the familiar Stokes paradox
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    A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE in The Graduate Mathematics Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi.
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