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Motion of Rigid Bodies in Fluids

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Consider in some vessel, V, a linearly viscous isotropic incompressible fluid. The fluid occupies the entire vessel and contains a rigid body which can move in the fluid (Fig. 13.1). At some instant, the body occupies a region B and has a translational velocity, u i

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Berdichevsky, V. (2009). Motion of Rigid Bodies in Fluids. In: Variational Principles of Continuum Mechanics. Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88467-5_13

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