Stabilization and destabilization of channel flow by location of viscosity-stratified fluid layer

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-3

  Ranganathan, Balaji T ^a   Govindarajan, Rama ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHEBYSHEV APPROXIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

VISCOSITY-STRATIFIED FLUID LAYERS;

CHANNEL FLOW;

CHANNEL FLOW; FLOW STABILITY; STRATIFIED FLOW; TWO-PHASE FLOW; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0034746260     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1329651     Document Type: Article

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