A study of turbulent flow in pipe contractions

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering

Volumn 210, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 171-180

  Bullen, P R ^a   Cheeseman, D J ^b   Hussain, L A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Sudden contractions

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETERS; CALCULATIONS; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; LASER DOPPLER ANEMOMETERS; PIPE CONTRACTIONS; PRESSURE LOSS COEFFICIENTS;

PIPE FLOW;

FLOW FIELDS; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; PIPE FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0030436595     PISSN: 09544089     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/PIME_PROC_1996_210_312_02     Document Type: Article

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