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Air entrapment by a falling water mass

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Hasan N. Oguz ,
Andrea Prosperetti  and
Ali R. Kolaini
Hasan N. Oguz
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Andrea Prosperetti
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Ali R. Kolaini
Affiliation:
National Center for Physical Acoustics, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677, USA
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Abstract

The impact of a nearly cylindrical water mass on a water surface is studied both experimentally and theoretically. The experiments consist of the rapid release of water from the bottom of a cylindrical container suspended above a large water tank and of the recording of the free-surface shape of the resulting crater with a high-speed camera. A bubble with a diameter of about twice that of the initial cylinder remains entrapped at the bottom of the crater when the aspect ratio and the energy of the falling water mass are sufficiently large. Many of the salient features of the phenomenon are explained on the basis of simple physical arguments. Boundary-integral potential-flow simulations of the process are also described. These numerical results are in fair to good agreement with the observations.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 294 , 10 July 1995 , pp. 181 - 207
Copyright
© 1995 Cambridge University Press

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