Instabilities of the sidewall boundary layer in a differentially driven rotating cylinder

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 692-696

  Hart, John E ^a   Kittelman, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CYLINDERS; INSTABILITY; ROTATING;

EID: 0029673783     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.868854     Document Type: Article

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