Bifurcation phenomena in a Taylor-Couette flow with asymmetric boundary conditions

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 136-140

  Mullin, T ^a   Blohm, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; TAYLOR-COUETTE FLOW;

ASPECT RATIO; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STEADY FLOW;

TAYLOR-COUETTE FLOW;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 0034745737     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1329906     Document Type: Article

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