Hydrodynamic attraction of a plane wall to a point source

ID: hydrodynamic-attraction-of-a-plane-wall-to-a-point-source

An incompressible point source of volume flux at height above an impermeable plane has velocity potential , with an equal image source below the plane. On the wall, . The Bernoulli equation gives . Integrating the pressure deficit over the plane gives the displayed attraction force relative to ambient pressure. If source strength instead denotes the coefficient of radial inverse-square velocity, the force is .

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