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Inviscid Flow Around 2-D Cylinder

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It can be shown that the inviscid flow potential is given as:

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It can be proven that tex2html_wrap_inline519

The velocity components u and v will be given from:

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It can be shown that on the surface of cylinder:

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The total velocity tex2html_wrap_inline525 on the surface of the cylinder will be given as:

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Pressure coefficient (non-dimensional pressure)

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tex2html_wrap_inline529 : pressure at infinity (ambient pressure)

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Soon Woong Chang
Wed Oct 27 18:58:11 CDT 1999