The Forces experienced by a Lattice of Equal Flat Plates in a Uniform Flow at Small Reynolds Numbers

Abstract

Two-dimensional incompressible viscous flow past a lattice of equal parallel and equidistant flat plates without stagger placed parallel to a uniform flow is studied on the basis of Stokes’ approximation by use of the Fourier transformation method. Asymptotic solutions are explicitly obtained for two cases h→∞ and h→0, where h is the distance between the neighbouring two flat plates.