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A theory of water-bells

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

Jean-Yves Parlange
Jean-Yves Parlange
Affiliation:
Department of Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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Abstract

A theory is developed to determine the shape of water-bells. The motion of the gas induced by the moving walls is taken into account in this analysis. A rapidly converging iterative procedure leads to a theoretical shape which agrees well with the experimental shape of the water-bell.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , 11 August 1967 , pp. 361 - 372
Copyright
© 1967 Cambridge University Press

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