Onset and effects of instabilities from unstable stratification of density on mass transfer in channel shear layers at low Reynolds numbers

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1667-1679

  Ligrani, Phillip M ^a   Gupta, Supriya ^b   Giddings, J Calvin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; CHANNEL FLOW; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); LAMINAR FLOW; MIXING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

RICHARDSON NUMBER;

MASS TRANSFER;

INSTABILITY; MASS TRANSFER; MIXING; STRATIFIED FLOW;

MASS TRANSFER; MIXING PROCESSES; STRATIFIED FLOW;

EID: 0032103477     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0017-9310(97)00289-5     Document Type: Article

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