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On the stability of gas bubbles rising in an inviscid fluid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2006

D. I. Meiron
Affiliation:
Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Abstract

The stability to three dimensional disturbances of bubbles rising rectilinearly in an inviscid fluid is studied numerically. It is found, in contrast with earlier work, that the interaction of hydrodynamic pressure forces and surface tension does not lead to linear instability of the bubble path.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
1989 Cambridge University Press

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