Experimental Investigation of the Flow past a Cone in a Neutrally and Stably Stratified Fluid

Abstract

The two-layered stratified flow past a cone is studied experimentally, Tne aim of this paper is to investigate the dependence of the flow on the Reynolds number and the Richardson number, the effect of the level of the interface on the flow and the spatial distribution of the internal wave. The result is that the flow does cot change when Re number and Ri number change within 800<Re<1800, 20<Ri<100, but that the level of the interface greatly affect it, And the internal wave is measured by an electric conduction meter and is found to be boomerang-shaped.