Basset-Boussinesq history force acting on a drop in an oscillatory flow
Hadrien Godé, Sophie Charton, Éric Climent, Dominique Legendre
Abstract
The Basset-Boussinesq history force is shown to have a significant impact on droplet dynamics depending on the viscosity ratio and the Stokes Number. An accurate analytic modeling is proposed and validated by both direct numerical simulations and spectral analysis in the Fourier space.
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