Effect of blowing on the resistance of a sphere in laminar flow of viscous fluid

Using the method of matching asymptotic expansions 1–3], a stationary field of velocities is obtained in the vicinity of a sphere for Reynolds numbers R and R computed from the blowing velocity and the fluid flow, respectively; they satisfy the relations R² 1 and R 1. It is also shown that for intensive blowing (R 1), the resistive force is considerably smaller than that found by using the Stokes formula. For weak blowing the results are in good agreement with the solution of Oseen.Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskai Fiziki, No. 3, pp. 110–114, May–June, 1972.