Steady viscous flow past a sphere at high Reynolds numbers
- 1 May 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 190, 471-489
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112088001417
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.Keywords
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