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View SchemaOscillation and levitation of balls in continuously stratified fluids
| Authors | I. Biro, B. Gyure, I. M. Janosi, K. G. Szabo, T. Tel |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0702208 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0702208 |
| DOI | 10.1063/1.2927461 |
| Journal | Physics of Fluids, Vol. 20, 051705 (2008). |
Abstract
The free motion of balls is investigated experimentally in continously stratified fluid in a finite container. The oscillation frequency is found to be very close to the local Brunt-Vaisala frequency. The effect of added mass proves to be practically negligible. The evolution of rear jets is demonstrated, and a kind of long term levitation is found. We show that the classical viscous drag would lead to a much stronger damping than observed in the experiment. This is interpreted as a consequence of the feedback from the previously excited internal waves following their reflection from the boundaries. A phenomenological equation with a modified drag term is proposed to obtain a qualitative agreement with the observations. We point out that the inclusion of a history term would lead further away from the observed data.
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