Linear and nonlinear analysis of density-wave instability phenomena

Heat and Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-36

  Ambrosini, W ^a   Di Marco, P ^a   Ferreri, J C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Autoridad Reguladoria Nuclear   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

DENSITY-WAVE INSTABILITY;

BOILING LIQUIDS;

EID: 0033679369     PISSN: 03928764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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