Buoyant mixing of miscible fluids of varying viscosities in vertical tubes

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3846-3855

  Debacq, M ^a   Hulin, J P ^a   Salin, D ^a   Perrin, B ^a   Hinch, E J ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DIFFUSION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY;

GRAVITY-INDUCED MIXING; RANDOM MOTION;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

FLUID FLOW; MISCIBILITY; MISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; MIXING; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0346885977     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1624838     Document Type: Article

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