Hyperbola 2026-10-05
A hyperbola is a conic section with two unbounded branches. In suitable coordinates its equation is with . The unit hyperbola is parametrized by , on its right branch, relating it to the hyperbolic functions.
The boundary ray has , and its intersection with the hyperbola is . Under the given change of variables, and . Thus the region becomes
The hyperbolic functions satisfy , so the Jacobian determinant is
It is positive in the interior. The coordinate degeneracy at is a boundary set of area zero and does not affect the change of variables formula. Therefore
Here . The PDF specifies two line segments and one hyperbolic arc; the duplicated line in the TeX is not an extra boundary condition.
The wall removes the far-field decay condition and instead imposes , . The force-free condition eliminates any first-order mean shear; since mean sheet tangential velocity is zero, . Thus , where
Start with the hyperbolic function form . The lower conditions give , . Defining , the wall conditions give
Consequently the first-order flow for Taylor-sheet swimming next to a rigid wall is
For , ensures a nonzero denominator; as , this reduces to the unbounded first-order field on every fixed height interval.