Wake Collapse in Stratified Fluid: Experimental Exploration of Scaling Characteristics
- 17 May 1968
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 160 (3829) , 763-764
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.160.3829.763
Abstract
Passage of a submerged self-propelled body or other mixing device produces a region of more or less homogeneous fluid, in a fluid having a stable vertical density gradient (stratified), which initially expands vertically and then falls back (collapses). Maximum expansion Z2 at time t2 after the start of mixing are dependent variables related to the diameter Z1 of propeller or mixer and to the Väisälä-Brunt period T by T/t2 = 2.5 and Z2t2/Z1T = 1.3. These scaling relations are first-order approximations.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Wake Collapse in a Stratified FluidScience, 1967
- Experiments with a self-propelled body submerged in a fluid with a vertical density gradientJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 1963