The pressure distribution on a body in shear flow
Problems involving shear flow have been studied recently by Tsien2 and Kuo.3 The purpose of the present note is to point out that the pressure distribution on an infinite cylindrical body immersed in a two-dimensional shear flow can be obtained by means of integral equations, at least for a sufficiently smooth contour. A direct attack on the boundary value problem for the stream function is avoided. The method used is essentially that employed by Prager4 in the case of potential flow. If the undisturbed shear flow is given by the velocity field