Control of vortex breakdown by temperature gradients

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3468-3477

  Herrada, Miguel Angel ^a   Shtern, Vladimir ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HEAT CONVECTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

AXISYMMETRIC FLOW;

VORTEX FLOW;

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; FLUID FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; SWIRLING FLOW; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; VORTEX BREAKDOWN;

EID: 0344010229     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1613646     Document Type: Article

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