Numerical investigation of laminar flows through 90-degree diversions of rectangular cross-section

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 95-118

  Neary, V S ^a   Sotiropoulos, F ^b  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; CALCULATIONS; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); DUCTS; FLOW PATTERNS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DISCHARGE RATIOS; NINETY DEGREE RECTANGULAR CROSS SECTION DIVERSIONS; SOLID BOUNDARIES; THREE DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

LAMINAR FLOW;

LAMINAR FLOW; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; STEADY;

EID: 0030072158     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-7930(95)00030-5     Document Type: Article

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