Vol 6 - Landau+Lifschitz - Fluid Mechanics · Problem 9

IDEAL FLUIDS

Physics — Landau & Lifshitz · spherical-hole-filling-time

Problem

A spherical hole with radius

a

is suddenly formed in an incompressible fluid filling all space. Determine the time taken for the hole to be filled with fluid (Besant 1859; Rayleigh 1917).

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