THE BASSET FORCE IN HYDRODYNAMICS

BASSET, A.B.

A Treatise on Hydrodynamics. With numerous Examples. 2 vols.

Cambridge, Deighton, Bell and Co., 1888. 2 orig. full cloth. XII,264;XVI,328 pp. Fine and clean, a few scattered brownspots.

Scarce first edition. In this work Basset describes a force to the lagging boundary layer development with changing relative velocity of bodies moving through a fluid. This Basset-force is also known as as the "History" term. The force is difficult to implement and is commonly neglected from practical reasons, however, it can be substantially large when the body is accelerated at a high rate.

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