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A CONSTANT-VORTICITY RIABOUCHINSKY FREE-STREAMLINE FLOW
( Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Queensland St. Lucia, Queensland 4067, Australia )
The well-known Riabouchinsky body-free-streamline-image model is modified by replacing the stagnant fluid cavity by a region of constant-vorticity inviscid flow in which the streamlines form closed curves. Numerical solutions for the model are obtained for a class of flows with prescribed symmetries and given body shape. The possibility of similar extensions of general free-streamline flows is discussed briefly.