3-D Model of the Potential Flow Past an Immersed Body

Abstract

The paper describes a method of computation for the 3-D potential flow past an immersed body. The hidrodynamic model is obtained by superposing a horizontal stream and a vertical stream over the flow generated by more vertical surfaces of linear sources yielding in horizontal planes and set in the vertical symetry plane of the immersed body. Then the model is applied for a 3D potential flow over an ellipsoid.