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- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Path: sparky!uunet!world!jcf
- From: jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman)
- Subject: Flow on the floor of a sink
- Message-ID: <Bu36tH.HtD@world.std.com>
- Summary: Query about a familiar hydrodynamical phenomenon
- Keywords: hydrodynamics, turbulence, bore
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 03:53:41 GMT
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- When the stream of water from a faucet hits the layer of water it has
- created on the floor of the sink, it is surrounded by a thin disk of
- water in rapid radial motion that feeds into the thicker, slower-moving
- layer. What is the nature of the transition at the periphery? Is it
- a turbulent-to-laminar transition, or is it analogous to a tidal bore?
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