Flows through plane sudden-expansions

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 313-329

  De Zilwa, S R N ^a   Khezzar, L ^b   Whitelaw, J H ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Laminar flow; Reynolds number; Sudden expansions; Turbulent flow

Indexed keywords

LAMINAR FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SUDDEN EXPANSION; TURBULENT FLOW;

SUDDEN EXPANSIONS;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW; WALL FLOW;

LAMINAR FLOW;

EID: 0034651247     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0363(20000215)32:3<313::AID-FLD940>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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