Vol 57, No 5 (2005)

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Integral representations at the boundary for Stokes flow and related symmetric Galerkin formulation

D. Capuani, D. Bigoni, M. Brun

Arch. Mech. 57 (5), 363-385, 2005

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Abstract


A symmetric Galerkin boundary element formulation is given for the first time for two-dimensional, steady and incompressible flow. The formulation requires the derivation of certain integral representations (whose importance extends beyond the present application) for velocity gradient and pressure at the flow boundary; these turn out to be coupled at angular points of the contour profile.

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