Paper 4, Section II, B
Write down the velocity potential for a line source flow of strength located at in polar coordinates and derive the velocity components .
A two-dimensional flow field consists of such a source in the presence of a circular cylinder of radius centred at the origin. Show that the flow field outside the cylinder is the sum of the original source flow, together with that due to a source of the same strength at and another at the origin, of a strength to be determined.
Use Bernoulli's law to find the pressure distribution on the surface of the cylinder, and show that the total force exerted on it is in the -direction and of magnitude
where is the density of the fluid. Without evaluating the integral, show that it is positive. Comment on the fact that the force on the cylinder is therefore towards the source.