Author(s)

H. Power & P.W. Partridge

Abstract

Invited Paper Time-dependent Stokes flow for interior and exterior domains via dual reciprocity boundary element method H. Power", P.W. Partridge* Wessex Institute of Technology, University of Portsmouth, Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst, Southampton S04 2AA, UK " On leave from the Instituto de Mecdnica de Fluidos, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela * On leave from the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Brasilia, Brazil ABSTRACT: This paper presents a boundary element formulation for the transient Stokes equations for interior and exterior domains, in which the well known closed form fun- damental solution to the steady Stokes equations is employed and the time derivative is taken to the boundary with Dual Reciprocity Method. In order to satisfy the re- quired asymptotic behavior at infinity in the case of an unbounded domain, special considerations have to be taken into account in the formulation of the Dual Reci- procity Method. This ap

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