Numerical simulation of flow past a sphere in vertical motion within a stratified fluid

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-76

  Torres, Carlos R ^a   Ochoa, José ^b   Castillo, José E ^c   Hanazaki, Hideshi ^d  

^a Facultad de Ciencias   (Mexico)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flow past sphere; Variational grids; Viscous flow

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPHERES; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; VISCOUS FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

RICHARDSON NUMBER; STRATIFIED FLUIDS; VARIATIONAL GRIDS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

FLOW AROUND OBJECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; STRATIFIED FLUID;

FLOW AROUND OBJECT; FLOW MODELING; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 0033558827     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0427(98)00241-6     Document Type: Article

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