Cavity and projectile dynamics in intermediate Froude number water entry

Introduction: Water entry of projectiles has long been a topics of interest in both sciences and engineering. It began with Worthington, who in the late XIX century found experimentally that a cavity is being formed when a steel sphere enters water (Worthington and Cole (1895-1896)). As we know today, water entry of a sphere is a complex process which nonetheless can be enormously simplified, making it a particularly rewarding area of research.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2007

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• Kominiarczuk, Jakub K

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• Dick K.P. Yue.

• Physics.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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