A steady-state solver for the simulation of Taylor vortices in spherical annular flow

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 192, Issue 26-27, 2003, Pages 2993-3003

  Loukopoulos, V C ^a,b   Katsiaris, G A ^a   Karahalios, G T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Annular flow; Finite differences methods; Taylor vortices

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW;

STEADY AXISYMMETRIC FLOW;

STEADY FLOW;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0037623745     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(03)00314-1     Document Type: Article

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