Subsonic irrotational inviscid flow around certain bodies with two protruding corners

Volker Elling

doi:10.3934/cpaa.2018029

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2018, Volume 17, Issue 2: 539-555. Doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018029

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Subsonic irrotational inviscid flow around certain bodies with two protruding corners

Volker Elling^,

Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, 6F Astronomy-Mathematics Building, No. 1 Sec. 4 Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617, Taiwan

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Received: February 2017

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Published online: March 2018

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We prove non-existence of nontrivial uniformly subsonic inviscid irrotational flows around several classes of solid bodies with two protruding corners, in particular vertical and angled flat plates; horizontal plates are the only case where solutions exists. This fills the gap between classical results on bodies with a single protruding corner on one hand and recent work on bodies with three or more protruding corners.

Thus even with zero viscosity and slip boundary conditions solids can generate vorticity, in the sense of having at least one rotational but no irrotational solutions. Our observation complements the commonly accepted explanation of vorticity generation based on Prandtl's theory of viscous boundary layers.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary:76B03, 35Q35.

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Figure 1. Left: a protruding corner in a solid (shaded). Center: horizontal plate; ${\boldsymbol{\rm{v}}}={\boldsymbol{\rm{v}}}_\infty $ is the trivial solution. Right: angled plate

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Figure 2. Left: flow onto a vertical plate. Right: flow onto a body symmetric across the flow axis, with y extrema not attained in corners.

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Figure 3. Streamlines around Kármán-Trefftz lens with interior corner angle $270^\circ$, deflection $\beta =20^\circ$. Top left: $\Gamma =0$. Top right: $\Gamma $ chosen to yield bounded velocity at trailing (right) corner; rotate by $180^\circ$ to get the corresponding diagram for the leading corner.

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