The slow translation of a sphere in a rotating viscous fluid

DOI10.1017/S002211208200161XzbMath0534.76110MaRDI QIDQ3318432

S. C. R. Dennis, S. N. Singh, Derek B. Ingham

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

boundary conditions; sphere; elliptic equations; viscous; Gegenbauer functions; method of series truncation; finite difference techniques; slow translation; small Reynolds and Taylor numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76U05: General theory of rotating fluids

76M99: Basic methods in fluid mechanics

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