The phrase "around a surface" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is located or moving in a circular or surrounding manner relative to a surface.
Example: "The artist painted a mural around a surface that was previously bare."
Alternatives: "surrounding a surface" or "encircling a surface".
Hit upon the right subject and it will excel at calculating airflow around a surface, showing the distribution patterns for DNA base pairs in human genes, spitting out prime numbers or computing and comparing crucial statistics for various national economies.
Mining practices around a surface coal mine that affect the surface run-off water quality in Illinois are given below.
A simple analytical expression for the stress-field around a surface groove of varying sharpness due to the presence an intrinsic surface-stress is derived.
In this study, a quantitative comparison is made between measurements and predictions by analyzing oxide formation around a surface groove in an FeCrAlY substrate.
This isn't the first time the members of this team have used peculiar things to identify people: back in 2012, Holz used a Kinect to identify people standing around a Surface touchscreen table based on their shoes.
Heat transfer coefficients on the base surface and around a surface mounted vortex generator of delta-wing shape design, are evaluated with the transient liquid crystal measurement technique and over a range of freestream velocities.
If Microsoft wants to be a serious contestant in the tablet market, analysts believe it needs to make it easy for the public to walk into a store to play around with a Surface.
Roll it around on a surface or turn it in the air slowly to coat the surface.
Each Christmas, toy stores sell music featuring miniature skaters boxes that magically circle and spin around a mirrored surface.
The model performance in U-bend duct flows and a flow around a surface-mounted cubical obstacle is also examined.
The coherent structures of the flow developing around a surface-mounted cubic obstacle placed in turbulent channel flow (Re=40.000 based on bulk velocity and channel half-width) are investigated.
