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Since the velocity tends to zero at infinity, the steady Bernoulli equation gives $p+\rho |\mathbf{u}{|}^2/2=p_{\infty }$. On the wall, therefore,Compute the finite source-induced force relative to uniform ambient pressure, or equivalently use the gauge pressure $p-p_{\infty }$. The fluid lies above the wall, so its normal force on the wall points in $-{\mathbf{e}}_y$ for positive pressure. The negative excess pressure found here consequently produces an upward net force, toward the source.

For the symmetric section $-R\le x\le R$, there is no horizontal force, and the vertical excess force isHere an antiderivative of $x^2/(x^2+a^2{)}^2$ is $(1/(2a))\arctan (x/a)-x/[2(x^2+a^2)]$. Taking $R\to \infty$ gives the hydrodynamic attraction of a wall to a line source:Each component is a force per unit length of the wall in the out-of-plane direction. The result is an attraction even though the source sends fluid away from itself: faster tangential motion reduces the wall pressure.

The excess torque about the origin isfor every $R$, because the integrand is odd. Thus the symmetric infinite-wall limit isThe symmetric prescription matters: the separate one-sided moment integrals grow logarithmically, whereas the force integral converges absolutely. This is the appropriate Cauchy principal value for the infinite wall. If one instead asks for the absolute fluid force with no balancing ambient pressure on the other side, its vertical component on a finite section is $-2R{p}_{\infty }+F_y(R)$ and has no finite infinite-wall limit. The finite answer above is the flow-induced load.