Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Table of Contents - 1968 - Volume 31, Issue04  


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

D. W  Moore a1 1 and P. G.  Saffman a1
a1 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.

(Published Online March 28 2006)
(Received April 19 1967)
(Revised August 31 1967)


Footnotes

1 Permanent address: Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, London.


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