Edmund Chadwick1, Apostolis Kapoulas
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.102, No.4, pp. 331-343, 2014, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2014.102.331
Abstract Boundary element models in inviscid (Euler) flow dynamics for a manoeuvring body are difficult to formulate even for the steady case; Although the potential satisfies the Laplace equation, it has a jump discontinuity in twodimensional flow relating to the point vortex solution (from the 2π jump in the polar angle), and a singular discontinuity region in three-dimensional flow relating to the trailing vortex wake. So, instead models are usually constructed bottom up from distributions of these fundamental solutions giving point vortex thin body methods in two-dimensional flow, and panel methods and vortex lattice methods in three-dimensional… More >