This research develops an analytical method for predicting the hydrodynamic force experienced by a long slender solid body of arbitrary cross-sectional shape and body centreline configuration, subjected to an unbounded uniform fluid flow. It is assumed the slenderness parameter, K (the ratio of the body cross-sectional length scale the body length) is small ($ ll 1$), the body centreline radius of curvature is everywhere large (of order body length), the cross-sectional shape varies slowly alone the body length, and the Reynolds number $R sb{e}$, based on the body length is of order unity. / The inner flow solution for an arbitrary cross-section is illustrated by applying the complex variable method for a body with an elliptical cross-section, which is extendable to any cross-sectional shape. / The novelty of this research is the improvement of the approximation of the force per unit length in slender body theory when inertia effects are not negligibly small. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.23379 |
| Date | January 1995 |
| Creators | Tabatabaei, Seyed Mahmood |
| Contributors | Ven, T. Van de (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Engineering (Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001485617, proquestno: MM12142, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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