Paper 4, Section II, A
Part II, 2019
(a) Show that the Stokes flow around a rigid moving sphere has the minimum viscous dissipation rate of all incompressible flows which satisfy the no-slip boundary conditions on the sphere.
(b) Let , where and are solutions of Laplace's equation, i.e. and .
(i) Show that is incompressible.
(ii) Show that satisfies Stokes equation if the pressure .
(c) Consider a rigid sphere moving with velocity . The Stokes flow around the sphere is given by
where the origin is chosen to be at the centre of the sphere. Find the values for and which ensure no-slip conditions are satisfied on the sphere.