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ehammond
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Name: Eric Hammond
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Question
How fast do interbubbles travel through water? Join or Log In to answer.
For very small bubbles, we can show that the speed of the bubble is
u = 1/3 a^2 g/nu
where a is the radius of the bubble, g is the acceleration of gravity (980 cm/s), and nu is the "kinematic viscosity" of water (0.14 cm^2/s).
-Duckie (0Q / 806A) Fri Feb 1, 2008 8:35pm


This only holds for bubbles less than a millimeter across. When they get bigger than that, a "boundary layer" forms, which changes the way the water flows around the bubble, and the speed of the bubble is closer to
u = 1/9 a^2 g/nu
-Duckie (0Q / 806A) Fri Feb 1, 2008 8:36pm


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