A note on power-law scaling in a Taylor-Couette flow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 140-144

  Lim, T T ^a   Tan, K S ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FLOW VISUALIZATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

POWER-LAW SCALING;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

CYLINDER; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUID MECHANICS; POWER LAW FLUID; TAYLOR-COUETTE FLOW;

EID: 0942278118     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1631417     Document Type: Article

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