scholarly journals Numerical solution to an integral equation for the kth moment function of a geometric process

Author(s):  
Mustafa Hilmi PEKALP ◽  
Ayşenur AYDOĞDU
1977 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. B. Russel ◽  
E. J. Hinch ◽  
L. G. Leal ◽  
G. Tieffenbruck

As an inclined rod sediments in an unbounded viscous fluid it will drift horizontally but will not rotate. When it approaches a vertical wall, the rod rotates and so turns away from the wall. Illustrative experiments and a slender-body theory of this phenomenon are presented. In an incidental study the friction coefficients for an isolated rod are found by numerical solution of the slender-body integral equation. These friction coefficients are compared with the asymptotic results of Batchelor (1970) and the numerical results of Youngren ' Acrivos (1975), who did not make a slender-body approximation.


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