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Water entry of small disks, cones, or anything
W. Muneo Okiishi, Caleb Becker, Jesse Belden +2
The water entry of solid and liquid bodies has been studied for over a century, and various researchers have classified the different behaviors that occur when the gas-filled cavit…
Slamming Forces During Water Entry of a Simple Harmonic Oscillator
John T. Antolik, Jesse L. Belden, Nathan B. Speirs +1
When a blunt body impacts an air-water interface, large hydrodynamic forces often arise, a phenomenon many of us have unfortunately experienced in a failed dive or "belly flop." Be…
The water entry surface seal behavior of spheres at intermediate speed regimes
Akihito Kiyama, Rafsan Rabbi, Nathan Speirs +3
This research focuses on the water entry of spheres in the surface seal regime. Herein, surface seal occurs in the wake of a sphere impact with the water surface and is characteriz…
Impact force reduction by consecutive water entry of spheres
Rafsan Rabbi, Nathan Speirs, Akihito Kiyama +2
Free-falling objects impacting onto water pools experience a very high initial impact force, greatest at the moment when breaking through the free surface. Many have intuitively wo…
Reducing water entry impact forces
Nathan B. Speirs, Jesse Belden, Zhao Pan +4
The forces on an object impacting the water are extreme in the early moments of water entry and can cause structural damage to biological and man-made bodies alike. These early-tim…