Unsteady forces on spheres during free-surface water entry

DOI10.1017/jfm.2012.232zbMath1246.76008OpenAlexW1557462894MaRDI QIDQ2907249

Tadd T. Truscott, Alexandra H. Techet, Brenden P. Epps

Publication date: 7 September 2012

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

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80816

zbMATH Keywords

computational methodsfree surfacevortex shedding

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Jets and cavities, cavitation, free-streamline theory, water-entry problems, airfoil and hydrofoil theory, sloshing (76B10)

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