Competition of Coriolis instability with centrifugal instability and its effects on heat transfer in a rotating curved heated channel

International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-50

  Wang, Liqiu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Centrifugal instability; Coriolis instability; Flow structure; Heat transfer; Merging vortices

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003732710     PISSN: 00207462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0020-7462(97)00074-7     Document Type: Article

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