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Steady viscous flow past a sphere at high Reynolds numbers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2006

Bengt Fornberg
Bengt Fornberg
Affiliation:
Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ 08801, USA
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Abstract

Numerical solutions are presented for steady incompressible flow past a sphere. At high Reynolds numbers (results are presented up to R = 5000), the wake is found to resemble a Hill's spherical vortex.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 190 , May 1988 , pp. 471 - 489
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© 1988 Cambridge University Press

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