Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol.47, No.4, 1081-1084, 2008
Hydrodynamic solution of the virtual mass coefficient of a vortex ring moving in a fluid
A semianalytical solution was obtained for the virtual mass coefficient (C-V) of a vortex ring moving in a fluid of unlimited extent. A new phenomenon of the drag force on a vortex ring moving in an immiscible fluid was emerged from these analyses. The C-V result was compared favorably with recent experimental and numerical results obtained by other investigators.