Computations of recirculation zones of a confined annular swirling flow

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 791-810

  Young, D L ^a   Liao, C B ^b   Sheen, H J ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Annular swirling flow; Flow pattern; Projection method; Recirculation zone; Reynolds number; Swirl number

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFINED FLOW; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; POISSON RATIO; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SWIRLING FLOW;

ADAMS-BASHFORTH SCHEME; CONFINED ANNULAR SWIRLING FLOW; EQUATION OF CONTINUITY; PROJECTION METHOD; RECIRCULATION ZONES; SWIRL NUMBER;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

ANNULAR FLOW; FLOW PATTERN; RECIRCULATION; SWIRLING FLOW;

EID: 0033560467     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0363(19990415)29:7<791::AID-FLD817>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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