Critical mass and a new periodic four-ring vortex wake mode for freely rising and falling spheres

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Horowitz, M ^a   Williamson, C H K ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPHERES; WAKES;

CRITICAL MASS; CRITICAL VALUE; LARGE AMPLITUDE; PERIODIC OSCILLATION; RELATIVE DENSITY; VERTICAL PLANE; VORTEX FORMATION; VORTEX WAKES;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 55849100331     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2992126     Document Type: Conference Paper

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