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Least-drag bodies moving in media subject to the locality hypothesis

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A solution is constructed for the variational problem of a body of minimum drag moving at constant velocity in media in which under certain assumptions the force exerted by the medium on an area element of the body surface depends only on its orientation relative to the direction of motion (locality hypothesis). The representations of the normal (pressure) and tangential (friction) components of the force embrace a broad range of the conditions realized in the motion of a body through gases and dense media.

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    N. A. Ostapenko & G. E. Yakunina

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Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 1, pp. 95–106, January–February, 1992.

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Ostapenko, N.A., Yakunina, G.E. Least-drag bodies moving in media subject to the locality hypothesis. Fluid Dyn 27, 71–80 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01054176

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