An Enhanced Model for the Hydrodynamic Drag Force on a Steadily Translating Circular Cylinder

Authors

  • Monday Ekhator Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu- Alike, Nigeria
  • Vincent Asor Department of Mathematics, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Nigeria
  • Stephen Etebefia Federal School of Statistics, Enugu, Nigeria

Keywords:

Drag force, Drag coefficient, Streamline, Stream function, Reynolds number

Abstract

A model for the hydrodynamic drag force on a steadily translating circular cylinder was studied for Reynolds number, Re << 1. Though the literature appears vast especially by method of rigorous asymptotic analysis, this work attempts to remove the mathematical complexity of asymptotic analysis by solving the Navier – Stokes equations directly to obtain the fluid velocity and then proceed to obtain the drag force and finally the drag coefficient which is a function of the Reynolds number. The result of this work is in complete agreement with the results in literature.

 

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Published

2022-03-01

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Ekhator, M., Asor, V., & Etebefia, S. (2022). An Enhanced Model for the Hydrodynamic Drag Force on a Steadily Translating Circular Cylinder. American Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences, 86(1), 143–156. Retrieved from https://www.asrjetsjournal.org/index.php/American_Scientific_Journal/article/view/7448

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Vol. 86 No. 1 (2022)

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