Flow past large obstructions between corotating disks in fixed cylindrical enclosures

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 499-505

  Suzuki, Hiroshi ^a   Humphrey, Joseph A C ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); DRAG; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRICTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTATING DISKS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TORQUE;

BLOCKAGE EFFECTS; COROTATING DISKS; DYNAMICAL INSTABILITY; FIXED CYLINDRICAL ENCLOSURES; FRICTION DRAG; INTERDISK FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0031236556     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: 1528901X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2819272     Document Type: Article

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