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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 06, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
John Russell Grant, Jamestown, RI (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06G / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364578 ;
Abstract
A method for determining the velocity of a three-dimensional fluid flow o a submerged body is provided. A plurality of finite volume cylindrical elements are used to represent the distribution of vorticity at the surface geometry of the body. The vorticity distribution is used to determine the velocity field of the flow according to the Biot-Savart integral which is solved for in a cylindrical coordinate system.