Hydrodynamic attraction of a wall to a line source

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In the upper half-plane, a line source of outward volume flux at height above an impermeable wall has an equal image source below it. On the wall and the normal velocity vanishes. The steady Bernoulli equation gives . Since
the ambient-relative force per unit length pulls the wall toward the source with the displayed magnitude. The torque about the source's projection onto the wall is zero in the symmetric Cauchy principal value sense. Individual one-sided moments diverge logarithmically. This planar result differs from the three-dimensional hydrodynamic attraction of a plane wall to a point source.

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