Unsteady drag on a sphere at finite Reynolds number with small fluctuations in the free-stream velocity

DOI10.1017/S0022112091000629zbMath0729.76601MaRDI QIDQ3354291

Renwei Mei, Christopher J. Lawrence, Ronald J. Adrian

Publication date: 1991

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76D05: Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids

76D99: Incompressible viscous fluids

76M20: Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

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