Unsteady force on a spherical bubble at finite Reynolds number with small fluctuations in the free-stream velocity

DOI10.1063/1.858501zbMath0742.76089OpenAlexW1976867646MaRDI QIDQ3991187

James F. Klausner, Renwei Mei

Publication date: 28 June 1992

Published in: Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.858501

zbMATH Keywords

Navier-Stokes equationsspherical bubblefree-stream velocityfinite- difference methodregular perturbation schemeunsteady drag

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99) Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20)

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