Numerical study of bifurcation in three-dimensional sudden channel expansions

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 583-593

  Schreck, E ^a   Schafer M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; VECTORS;

THREE-DIMENSIONAL SUDDEN CHANNEL EXPANSIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

BIFURCATION; CHANNEL FLOW; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SUDDEN EXPANSION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 0342424201     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7930(99)00014-6     Document Type: Article

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