Longitudinal Permeability of Spatially Periodic Rectangular Arrays of Circular Cylinders I. A Single Cylinder in the Unit Cell

Abstract

We study the longitudinal permeability of a spatially periodic rectangular array of circular cylinders, when a Newtonian fluid is flowing at low Reynolds number along the cylinders. The longitudinal component of the velocity obeys a Poisson equation which is transformed into a functional equation. This equation can be solved by the method of successive approximations. The major advantage of this technique is that the permeability of the array can be expressed analytically in terms of the radius of the cylinders and of the aspect ratio of the unit cell.