Fox and McDonald's Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
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Author: Philip J. Pritchard, John W. Mitchell
Publisher: WILEY
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Chapter 6, Problem 85P
Consider the flow past a circular cylinder, of radius a, used in Example 6.11. Show that Vr = 0 along the lines (r, θ) = (r, ±π/2). Plot Vθ/U versus radius for r ≥ a, along the line (r, θ) = (r, π/2). Find the distance beyond which the influence of the cylinder is less than 1 percent of U.
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