An internal splash: Levitation of falling spheres in stratified fluids

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1567-1580

  Abaid, Nicole ^a   Adalsteinsson, David ^a   Agyapong, Akua ^b   McLaughlin, Richard M ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPHERES;

FLUID TRANSITIONS; NONMONOTONIC TRANSITION; OPTICAL DISTORTION; VELOCITY PROFILE;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODELING; SPLASH; STRATIFIED FLUID; VELOCITY;

EID: 2442647521     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1687685     Document Type: Article

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