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Note on a sphere theorem for the axisymmetric stokes flow of a viscous fluid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

W. D. Collins
Affiliation:
King' College, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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An expression for the Stokes's stream-function for a slow steady axisymmetrical motion of viscous fluid due to a hydrodynamical distribution in the presence of a sphere has been given by the author [1] in terms of the stream-function for the motion due to the same distribution in unbounded fluid, this latter motion being assumed irrotational. The author has since been able to obtain a more general expression for the stream-function by not assuming the motion in unbounded fluid to be irrotational, this result being given in his Ph.D. dissertation [2]. Hasimoto [3] has since given these results, the second in a different form from that of the author. Since the general expression derived by the author is considerably simpler than that found by Hasimoto, it is given in this note. A corresponding result for the motion in a region bounded by a plane is also given.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © University College London 1958

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1.Collins, W. D., Mathematika, 1 (1954), 125130.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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3.Hasimoto, H., J. Phys. Soc. Japan, 11 (1956), 793797.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
4.Butler, S. F. J., Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc., 49 (1953), 169174.CrossRefGoogle Scholar