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The iterated equation of generalized axially symmetric potential theory. I. Particular solutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

J. C. Burns
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The Australian National University Canberra, A.C.T.
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The iterated equation of generalized axially symmetric potential theory (GASPT) [1] is defined by the relations (1) where (2) and Particular cases of this equation occur in many physical problems. In classical hydrodynamics, for example, the case n = 1 appears in the study of the irrotational motion of an incompressible fluid where, in two-dimensional flow, both the velocity potential φ and the stream function Ψ satisfy Laplace's equation, L0(f) = 0; and, in axially symmetric flow, φ and satisfy the equations L1 (φ) = 0, L-1 (ψ) = 0. The case n = 2 occurs in the study of the Stokes flow of a viscous fluid where the stream function satisfies the equation L2k(ψ) = 0 with k = 0 in two-dimensional flow and k = −1 in axially symmetric flow.

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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1967

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