Incompressible flow around an obstacle

• Grant number: 10/07422-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2010
• End date: May 31, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Mathematics - Applied Mathematics
• Principal Investigator: Helena Judith Nussenzveig Lopes
• Grantee: Alexandre Stehlick Marcondes Noronha Tomei
• Host Institution: Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica (IMECC). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In this project we intend to consider incompressible flows in the exterior of a planar obstacle. The main objective is to investigate the problem of the influence of the geometry of the obstacle on the flow exterior to it (curvature, convexity, etc), in the presence of a non-vanishing background constant velocity at infinity.