Separated Flow Past a Plate with Spoiler
Alan R. Elcrat · SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis · 1982
The Helmholtz–Kirchhoff flow past a flat plate with a spoiler attached is studied using conformal mapping of the hodograph image. The hodograph is a Riemann surface with polygonal boundary and a theorem of Gilbarg showing how to map such a domain into a half-plane is used. The result obtained actually solves an inverse problem and can be used to “shoot” for a solution of the direct problem. Some numerical results for this procedure are presented at the end of this paper.