Analytical Evaluation of the Surface Integral in the Singularity Methods

For a planar curve-sided panel with constant or linear density distributions of source or doublet in the singularity methods, Cantaloube and Rehbach show that the surface integral can be transformed into contour integral by using Stokes'formulas. As an extension of their formulations, this paper deals with a planar polygonal panel for which we derive the closed-forms of the potentials and the velocities induced by the singularity distributions. Test calculations show that the analytical evaluation of the closed-forms is superior to numerical integration (suggested by Cantaloube and Rehbach) of the contour integral. The compact and explicit expressions may produce accurate values of matrix elements of simultaneous linear equations in the singularity methods with much reduced computer time.