Numerical study of the early stages of impulsively started unsteady laminar flow past a square cylinder

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 53-70

  Lee, T S ^a   Tan, R S ^a   Xu, X P ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Early stages; Impulsively started flow; Square cylinders

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAMINAR FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

EARLY STAGES; SQUARE CYLINDERS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

BODIES-CYLINDERS; LAMINAR FLOW; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL;

EID: 0030427452     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/eb017557     Document Type: Article

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