Laminar Incompressible Flow over a Rotating Disk

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Laminar Incompressible Flow over a Rotating Disk

• Numerical Analysis for Engineering
• John Virtue
• December 1999

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Problem Description
The Navier Stokes Momentum Equations
Can be transformed into the following System of
Non-Linear Second Order Differential Equations
as a function of Zeta only
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Numerical Formulation
The Second Order Differential Equations can be
reduced to a system of First Order Equations
by Introducing the following variables
The resulting System of Non-Linear First Order
Differential Equations are...
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Runge-Kutta Fourth Order Solution
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