A sphere does not go at the speed of the flow it is in
How far a force-free sphere on the axis of a round tube lags the fluid at its own centre, against its size. The lag is two-thirds of the square of the size ratio and comes from the reciprocal theorem in one line: the sphere moves at the average of the ambient flow over its own surface, and a parabolic profile is slower everywhere on that surface than at the middle. At a fifth of the tube's radius the lag is 2.7 per cent, which is the difference between a tracer and a thing being measured.
2 essays call
reciprocity. 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 reciprocity 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.
- A force without the flow that makes it Viscosity
- A viscosity made of particles Viscosity