Drag on a sphere moving horizontally in a stratified fluid

DOI10.1017/S0022112000001361zbMath0982.76026OpenAlexW2072221568MaRDI QIDQ4512483

M. D. Greenslade

Publication date: 8 April 2002

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112000001361

zbMATH Keywords

drag coefficientlarge Froude numberssmall Froude numbersattached wakeBoussinesq stratified fluidlinear gravity wave theorysteady translational motion of sphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stratification effects in viscous fluids (76D50) Stratification effects in inviscid fluids (76B70)

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