Bifurcation of low reynolds number flows in symmetric channels

AIAA Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 99-105

  Battaglia, Francine ^a,b   Tavener, Simon J ^a,b   Kulkarni, Anil K ^a,b   Merkle, Charles L ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Energy ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CHANNEL FLOW; COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; JETS; LAMINAR FLOW; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VECTORS;

KINEMATIC VISCOSITY; TIME MARCHING FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

AERODYNAMICS;

BIFURCATION; CHANNELS; FLOW FIELDS; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL;

EID: 0030888609     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.68     Document Type: Article

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