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Creeping flow, and the same body with inertia

Creeping flow, and the same body with inertia
Creeping flow, and the same body with inertia. The exact creeping-flow solution beside a solved field at a Reynolds number where inertia matters. The creeping flow is a mirror image of itself front to back — a photograph of it run backwards is a photograph of it — and the field with inertia has a wake, which is what a direction of time looks like.

The exact creeping-flow solution beside a solved field at a Reynolds number where inertia matters. The creeping flow is a mirror image of itself front to back — a photograph of it run backwards is a photograph of it — and the field with inertia has a wake, which is what a direction of time looks like.

5 essays call creeping-flow. The drawing above is what it returns with no arguments at all; every call below passes it something, because a placement that passes nothing draws whichever member of the family the generator happens to default to rather than the one its essay argues about.

It is also the blast radius. Changing creeping-flow changes every figure listed here at once, and on this site it may change what they assert as well as what they show — which is what has to be rebuilt and looked at before the change is believed.

Where it is called

What each of these essays asks for instead of the defaults is on the regime index, which reads the parameters back out of the finished figures rather than out of the placements.

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