Taylor-Couette flow with buoyancy: Onset of spiral flow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2872-2884

  Kuo, Dah Chyi ^a   Ball, Kenneth S ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BUOYANCY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLOW PATTERNS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMAL EFFECTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSITION FLOW;

AXISYMMETRIC FLOW; CHEBYSHEV COLLOCATION METHOD; FOURIER SPECTRAL METHOD; GRASHOFF NUMBER; ISOTHERMAL FLOW; SPIRAL FLOW; TAYLOR-COUETTE FLOW;

ROTATIONAL FLOW;

BUOYANCY; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; TAYLOR-COUETTE FLOW;

BUOYANCY; FLOW MODELLING; TAYLOR-COUETTE FLOW;

EID: 0031259386     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869400     Document Type: Article

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