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The rise of a body through a rotating fluid in a container of finite length

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

D. W Moore  and
P. G. Saffman
D. W Moore
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
P. G. Saffman
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
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Abstract

The drag on an axisymmetric body rising through a rotating fluid of small viscosity rotating about a vertical axis is calculated on the assumption that there is a Taylor column ahead of and behind the body, in which the geostrophic flow is determined by compatibility conditions on the Ekman boundary-layers on the body and the end surfaces. It is assumed that inertia effects may be neglected. Estimates are given of the conditions for which the theory should be valid.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , 18 March 1968 , pp. 635 - 642
Copyright
© 1968 Cambridge University Press

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