Analytic expression for Taylor - Couette stability boundary

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1814-1819

  Esser, Alexander ^a   Grossmann, Siegfried ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STABILITY; TAYLOR-COUETTE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0029673706     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.868963     Document Type: Article

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