Taylor-Couette instability of travelling waves with a continuous spectrum

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 324, Issue , 1996, Pages 181-198

  Ghosh Moulic, S ^a,b   Yao, L S ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CYLINDERS (SHAPES); INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW;

CIRCULAR COUETTE FLOW; MIXED CONVECTION FLOWS; NONLINEAR WAVE RESONANCE; SPIRAL VORTEX FLOW; TAYLOR COUETTE INSTABILITY; TAYLOR VORTEX FLOW; TRAVELING WAVES; WAVY VORTEX FLOW;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 0030260844     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0022112096007884     Document Type: Article

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