On neutrally buoyant laminar spherical vortices
Abstract
It is shown that the similarity solution for an unbounded viscous vortex ring, first given by Phillips and considered in detail by Morton, may be modified to represent a finite spherical volume of fluid moving relative to the fluid at infinity; that is, a laminar spherical vortex is obtained. The gross behavior of the vortex is discussed and compared with the observations of Keedy. Good agreement between the predicted and experimental results is found.
- Publication:
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Applied Scientific Research
- Pub Date:
- September 1974
- Bibcode:
- 1974ApScR..29..351M
- Keywords:
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- Equations Of Motion;
- Similarity Theorem;
- Viscous Fluids;
- Vortex Rings;
- Asymptotic Methods;
- Buoyancy;
- Flow Equations;
- Flow Visualization;
- Laminar Flow;
- Propagation Velocity;
- Stream Functions (Fluids);
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer