Lift on a sphere in shear flow near flat channel bed

The lift and drag forces exerting on a sphere immersed in a shear flow above a flat channel bed are evaluated by solving the steady three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations. The numerical technique which combines the Newton iteration method and the finite element method is used to solve the non-lin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ying, Ker-Jen
Other Authors: Civil Engineering
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39966
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10192005-113310/