Parametrization of general solutions for the Navier-Stokes equations
Parametrization of general solutions for the Navier-Stokes equations
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纳维-斯托克斯方程通解的参数化
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1994
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K. B. Ranger
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K. B. Ranger
A method is described for constructing general solutions of the steady two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations governing the motion of a viscous incompressible liquid. The solution for the stream function is expressed in implicit parametric form containing two arbitrary complex functions or four arbitrary real functions. Introduction. To determine quantities of physical interest for the steady motion of a viscous incompressible liquid such as force, torque, pressure, boundary vorticity, or shear stress requires a solution for the fluid velocity satisfying the Navier-Stokes equations. The flow equations though quasi-linear and autonomous contain sufficient nonlinearity, through coupling of the fluid velocity and vorticity, in such a way that solutions of generality can only be found implicitly defined through the use of parametric functions; see [2], However, these implicit representations for the solutions, although not of the most desirable form, are not without interest and can be employed to investigate and simplify the boundary values of the basic flow quantities and their derivatives. The present paper addresses the problem of constructing general type solutions that are implicitly defined in terms of parametric equations. The starting point is a concise complex variable formulation; see [1] for the simplest nondegenerate form of the Navier-Stokes equations; namely, the steady two-dimensional flow equations governing the motion of viscous incompressible liquid. This complex equation contains the stream function y/ and an auxiliary real function <> as dependent variables and has the advantages of being quasi-linear, autonomous, with the only independent variable being ~z = x iy . All three properties are used in the present analysis. The method of solution is to parametrize y and in terms of 2, -, y/2, , and this is achieved by the introduction of complex stream functions which provide nonlinear equations of Riccati type and allow explicit integration. The complex stream functions have no obvious physical significance and are used as an analytical device to determine the real physical stream function (//. In general, neither the real nor the imaginary parts of the complex stream functions are solutions of the Received April 6, 1992. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 76. ©1994 Brown University 335