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Slow flow past ellipsoids of revolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

D. R. Breach
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Melbourne
Now at the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Sheffield.

Abstract

The results of Proudman & Pearson (1957) for a sphere are generalized to apply to all ellipsoids of revolution both prolate and oblate.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1961 Cambridge University Press

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