Creeping flow of a sphere nearby a cylinder

• Main Authors: Yao, Xin, Marcos
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Mechanical engineering; Low-Reynolds-Number Flows; Particle/Fluid Flow
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159962
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We present a three-dimensional solution of a sphere nearby an infinite cylinder at low Reynolds number. We utilize the Lamb's general solution based on spherical harmonics and develop a framework based on cylindrical harmonics to solve the flow field around the sphere and outside the cylinder,...