Characteristics of disturbances in the laminar-turbulent transition of spherical Couette flow. 1. Spiral Taylor-Görtler vortices and traveling waves for narrow gaps

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 3963-3972

  Nakabayashi, Koichi ^a   Tsuchida, Yoichi ^a   Zheng, Zhiming ^b  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Daikin Air Conditioning R and D Laboratory Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; LAMINAR FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS;

TURBULENT FLOW;

COUETTE FLOW; LAMINAR-TURBULENT TRANSITION; SPHERICAL FLOW; TAYLOR VORTEX;

EID: 0036856026     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1502661     Document Type: Article

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