An internal splash: Levitation of falling spheres in stratified fluids

DOI10.1063/1.1687685zbMath1186.76012MaRDI QIDQ3554391

Richard M. McLaughlin, Akua Agyapong, Nicole Abaid, David Adalsteinsson

Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/011d5cb54c3409eaf60a85dec8e89e471b870132

zbMATH Keywords

differential equations; turbulent diffusion; nonlinear dynamical systems; refractive index; stratified flow; optical distortion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76-XX: Fluid mechanics

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