Vertical water entry of disks at low Froude numbers

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2078-2083

  Glasheen, J W ^a,b   McMahon, T A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG; FROUDE NUMBER; WATER;

EID: 0030469619     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869010     Document Type: Article

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