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We analyse the low-Reynolds-number flow generated by a cylinder (of radius $a$ ) in a stream (of velocity $U_{\infty }$ ) which has a uniform through-surface blowing component (of velocity $U_{b}$ ). The flow is characterized in terms of the Reynolds number $Re$ ( $=2aU_{\infty }/{\it\nu}$ , where ${\it\nu}$ is the kinematic viscosity of the fluid) and the dimensionless blow velocity ${\it\Lambda}$ ( $=U_{b}/U_{\infty }$ ). We seek the leading-order symmetric solution of the vorticity field which satisfies the near- and far-field boundary conditions. The drag coefficient is then determined from the vorticity field. For the no-blow case Lamb’s (Phil. Mag., vol. 21, 1911, pp. 112–121) expression is retrieved for $Re\rightarrow 0$ . For the strong-sucking case, the asymptotic limit, $C_{D}\approx -2{\rm\pi}{\it\Lambda}$ , is confirmed. The blowing solution is valid for ${\it\Lambda}<4/Re$ , after which the flow is unsymmetrical about ${\it\theta}={\rm\pi}/2$ . The analytical results are compared with full numerical solutions for the drag coefficient $C_{D}$ and the fraction of drag due to viscous stresses. The predictions show good agreement for $Re=0.1$ and ${\it\Lambda}=-5,0,5$ .

Low-Reynolds-number flow past a cylinder with uniform blowing or sucking