Flow of a Viscous Incompressible Fluid from a Moving Point Source

Abstract

The flow of a viscous incompressible fluid outflowing from a uniformly moving point source is considered. An exact solution to the problem is found in the way that the velocity decreases inversely with the radial coordinate. It is shown that a spherical volume of fluid is carried away by the source, the radius of which is inversely proportional with respect to the velocity of motion. In this case, a cylindrical discontinuity arises in the region of forming a wake behind the body, the dimensions of which are determined by the magnitude of the external pressure and do not depend on the velocity of the source. The obtained solutions are governed by hydrodynamical fields of flows which can be recognized as special invariants at symmetry reduction. © 2022 by the authors.