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 conditionssphereelliptic equationsviscousGegenbauer functionsmethod of series truncationfinite difference techniquesslow translationsmall Reynolds and Taylor numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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Numerical methods for steady viscous flow problems ⋮ Simulation of particle settling in rotating and non-rotating flows of non-Newtonian fluids ⋮ On the numerical capture of Taylor column phenomena in rotating viscous fluid ⋮ Direct solution of the vorticity-stream function ordinary differential equations by a Chebyshev approximation

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