Experimental investigation of freely falling thin disks. Part 1. The flow structures and Reynolds number effects on the zigzag motion

DOI10.1017/jfm.2012.543zbMath1284.76035OpenAlexW2103714570MaRDI QIDQ5406500

Zhuang Su, Ming-De Zhou, Shiyi Chen, Jie-Zhi Wu, Hongjie Zhong, Cunbiao Lee

Publication date: 1 April 2014

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2012.543

zbMATH Keywords

aerodynamicsflow-structure interactions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Viscous vortex flows (76D17) Dynamics of a rigid body and of multibody systems (70E99)

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