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The problem of creeping flow past a swarm of porous circular cylinders with Happel and Kuwabara boundary conditions is investigated. The Brinkman equation for the flow inside the porous cylinder and the Stokes equation outside the porous cylinder in their stream function formulations are used. The force experienced by each porous circular cylinder in a cell is evaluated. Explicit expressions of stream functions are obtained for both the inside and outside flow fields. The earlier results reported by Happel and Kuwabara for flow past a solid cylinder in Happel’s and Kuwabara’s cell model, have been deduced. Analytical expressions for the velocity components, pressure, vorticity and stresstensor are also obtained
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Deo, S. Stokes flow past a swarm of porous circular cylinders with Happel and Kuwabara boundary conditions. Sadhana 29, 381–387 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02703689
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