Three-dimensional instability of the Ekman boundary layer flow in an annular cavity with a source-sink forced flow;Instabilite tridimensionnelle de la couche d'Ekman dans une configuration annulaire avec flux force

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences - Serie IIb: Mecanique, Physique, Chimie, Astronomie

Volumn 326, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 873-879

  Hugues, Sandrine ^a   Serre, Éric ^a   Crespo Del Arco, Emilia ^b   Randriamampianina, Anthony ^a   Bontoux, Patrick ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computational fluid mechanics; Instability and turbulence; Rotating flows

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; CAVITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

ARTICLE; FLUID FLOW; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICS; SIMULATION;

EID: 0032321397     PISSN: 12874620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1251-8069(99)80042-8     Document Type: Article

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