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The temporal behaviour of the hydrodynamic force on a body in response to an abrupt change in velocity at small but finite Reynolds number

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Phillip M. Lovalenti  and
John F. Brady
Phillip M. Lovalenti
Affiliation:
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Current Address: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.
John F. Brady
Affiliation:
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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Abstract

A modification to the O(Re)-accurate expression for the hydrodynamic force acting on a body in arbitrary time-dependent motion, determined by Lovalenti & Brady (1993), is presented. This simple modification captures the O(Re2) transient behaviour of the force, which has been recently shown to dominate at large time (Lawrence & Mei 1995), while maintaining the overall O(Re) accuracy.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 293 , 25 June 1995 , pp. 35 - 46
Copyright
© 1995 Cambridge University Press

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