biorthogonality condition for creeping motion in annular trenches匍匐在环形沟双正交条件.pdfVIP

Internat. J. Math. Math. Sci. Vol. 24, No. 9 (2000) 613–616 S0161171200004002 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. BIORTHOGONALITY CONDITION FOR CREEPING MOTION IN ANNULAR TRENCHES SUHEIL A. KHURI (Received 15 October 1999) Abstract. The biorthogonality condition for Stokes flow in annular trenches bounded by horizontal parallel planes and concentric vertical cylinders is derived. This condition, is needed to compute the coefficients of the eigenfunction expansion solution of the corre- sponding Stokes flow problem. Keywords and phrases. Eigenvalues, eigenfunctions, eigenfunction expansion, biorthogo- nality conditions, Stokes flow. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 76D07, 76D99, 35P10. 1. Introduction. Recently, the eigenfunction expansion method has been used ex- tensively for solving problems of Stokes flow; (cf. [1, 2, 7, 8]). Most recently, biorthog- onality conditions were used by Khuri to solve Stokes flow in a sectorial cavity [3] and by Khuri and Wang for solving Stokes flow around a bend [6]. The method leads to the development of a set of eigenfunctions, adjoint eigenfunctions, biorthogonality conditions and an algorithm for the computation of the eigenfunction expansions. In the present paper, we derive the biorthogonality condition for Stokes flow in annu- lar trenches bounded by horizontal parallel planes and concentric vertical cylinders. For biorthogonality conditions in other flow geometries, derived in a similar fashion, see [4, 5]. 2. Biorthogonality condition. In this section, we state Theorem 2.1 which gives the biorthogonality condition satisfied by the eigenfunctions and adjoint eigenfunctions of the following fourth-order boundary value problem: