Vortex structures and kinetic energy budget in two-dimensional flow past a square cylinder

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 669-694

  Saha, A K ^a   Muralidhar, K ^a   Biswas, G ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); ENERGY TRANSFER; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; KINETIC ENERGY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VORTEX FLOW;

OSCILLATORY COMPONENTS; STRESS COMPONENTS; VORTEX STRUCTURES;

UNSTEADY FLOW;

ENERGY; FLOW AROUND OBJECT; RECTANGULAR CYLINDER; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; VORTEX;

CYLINDER; ENERGY BUDGET; FLOW AROUND OBJECT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; VORTEX;

EID: 0034064890     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7930(99)00021-3     Document Type: Article

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