1st Edition

Introduction to the Potential Theory for the Time-Dependent Stokes System

By Ronald B. Guenther, Ernest Roetman Copyright 2026
180 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

180 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

Introduction to the Potential Theory for the Time-Dependent Stokes System   is made up of two parts. The first part deals with a careful presentation of the principles on which the physical problems are based. The fluids under consideration are assumed to be incompressible and the equations so obtained are nonlinear. The linear problems are obtained by introducing characteristic parameters and... Read more

Part 1: Background  1. Kinematics  2. Material Dynamics  3. Density and Stress  4. Recapitulation, Vorticity, Initial and Boundary Conditions  5. Scaling and Linearization  Part 2: Stokes and Oseen Systems - Initial Value Problems  6. The Three-Dimensional Fundamental Solutions  7. The Two-Dimensional Fundamental Solutions  8. The Cauchy problem for the time dependent Stokes and Oseen systems  9. The Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions to the Cauchy Problem  Part 3: Boundary Value Problems  10. Uniqueness Theory  11. Outline Recalling Classical Potential Theory  12. Boundary Value Problems for the Unsteady Stokes Equations  13. The Half Space Problem for the Dirichlet Problem  14. The Half Space Problem for the Neumann Problem  Part 4: Compressible Fluids  15. Compressible Liquids  16. Temperature Dependent, Compressible Fluids

Biography

Ronald B. Guenther is an emeritus professor in the Department of Math-ematics at Oregon State University. His career began at the Marathon Oil Company where he served as an advanced research mathematician at its Den-ver Research Center. Most of his career was spent at Oregon State University, with visiting professorships at the Universities of Hamburg and Augsburg, and appointments at research laboratories in the United States and Canada, and at the Hahn-Meitner and Weierstrass Institutes in Berlin. His research inter-ests include mathematically modeling deterministic systems and the ordinary and partial differential equations that arise from these models.

Ernest Roetman (1936 - 2023) earned his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Oregon State University in 1963. After a post doc at the University of Aachen, Germany, he took a position at Bell Labs. He began his academic ca-reer at Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey. Subsequently, he moved to the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, with brief visiting positions at the University of Aachen, Germany, Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, and the Marathon Oil Co. Research Center in Denver, Colorado. In 1980 he joined the Boeing Co. in Seattle, Washington as a researcher and manager. He retired from Boeing in 2003. He then taught mathematics and engineering courses at Henry Cogswell College, Everett, Washington until his final retirement in 2006.