Another look at the use of complex sources for the generation of bodies of revolution in incompressible flow

By the use of discrete axial distributions of imaginary source discs it is possible to generate a wide class of axisymmetric bodies. In particular thin odies with bluff ends may be obtained, as well as a variety of other shapes. These results, which were obtained by an indirect method, indicate that a re-formulation as a direct method is possible and this is being pursued.