% Read me file for Dataset : 

'Flow taxonomy of a surface-piercing sphere over the transitional Fr-Re range'

Date of data collection: June 2015

The data are available under Creative Commons, Attribution, Non-commerical 4.0 licences.

Links to publications that cite or use the data: James M.C. (2016) On the search to reduce a swimmer’s resistance, surface-piercing bluff bodies over the critical Re-Fr range, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Southampton

Testing protocol used in data collection explained in : James, M. C., Forester, A., Hudson, D. A., Taunton, D. J. and Stephen, R. (2015), Experimental study of the transitional flow of a sphere located at the free surface, in ‘Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Ship and Marine Hydrodynamics’, Glasgow.

Relationships between the data files : The same testing procedure is used in each video. Only the sphere diameter, immersion depth and speed are varied.

Towing tank: Solent University - 6.0 x 3.7 x 1.8 [m^3]
Speed range: 0.60 - 3.70 m/s
Fr range: 0.4 - 3.3
Re range: 1.3x10^5 - 4.4x10^5