Steady rotation of a tethered sphere at small, non-zero Reynolds and Taylor numbers: wake interference effects on drag

DOI10.1017/S0022112086000320zbMath0615.76049OpenAlexW2032705992MaRDI QIDQ4724297

Howard Brenner, Anthony M. J. Davis

Publication date: 1986

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112086000320

zbMATH Keywords

incompressible viscous fluidsteady rotationtethered sphereMatched asymptotic expansion methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45) Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects (76D10)

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