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The magnitude of the circulation is chosen to satisfy the Kutta condition in the z plane.įrom a practical point of view, Joukowski's theory suffers an important drawback. This makes it possible to use the results for the cylinder with circulation (see Section 3.2.8) to calculate the flow around an airfoil. (where C is a parameter), then maps the complex potential flow around the circle in the ζ plane to the corresponding flow around the airfoil in the z plane. Angles of intersection are preserved everywhere except at the critical points at the end of the strip where they are doubled, for example from the 180-degree angle on the exterior of the circle to 360 degrees at the end points of the strip. The Joukowski mapping transforms the space outside a circle of radius C centered on ζ = 0 in the ζ plane to the whole space by, effectively, flattening the circle on to a strip of length 4 C on the real axis ( Table 2.1). This has critical points on the real axis at ζ = ± C corresponding to z = ± 2 C. This is given by the function z = ζ + C 2/ ζ, where C is a real constant. A good example and perhaps the most important example of mapping for aeroacoustics, is the Joukowski mapping. Thus critical points are very useful for creating flow past a geometry with a sharp corner from one that is smooth (such as the circular cylinder). Angles of intersection are preserved under conformal mapping, but not at critical points. Everywhere else the mapping is referred to as conformal.
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At points where the derivative of the mapping function dz/ dζ = 0, singularities can appear in the mapped flow that were not in the original flow.