CONTROL OF FLOW PAST A BODY OF REVOLUTION,
MINIMIZING THE BODY'S DRAG IN A VISCOUS FLUID

S. M. Aul'chenko

UDC 532.533

The problem of determination of the parameters and shape 
of a running wave on the surface of a body of revolution, which minimize 
the body's drag, has been solved. The physical effects occurring in 
such a control have been analyzed.

Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Siberian 
Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 4/1 Institutskaya Str., 
630090, Russia; email: aultch@itam.nsc.ru. Translated from 
Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 79, No. 5, pp. 109-111, 
September-October, 2006. Original article submitted March 10, 2005.