Numerical study of eccentric Couette-Taylor flows and effect of eccentricity on flow patterns

Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-59

  Shu, C ^a   Wang, L ^a   Chew, Y T ^a   Zhao, N ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Couette Taylor flows; Differential quadrature method; Eccentric cylinders; Navier Stokes equations; Pressure correction method

Indexed keywords

FLOW PATTERNS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VORTEX FLOW;

COUETTE-TAYLOR FLOWS; DIFFERENTIAL QUADRATURE METHODS; ECCENTRIC CYLINDERS; PRESSURE CORRECTION METHODS;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

ECCENTRICITY; FLOW PATTERN; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; TAYLOR-COUETTE FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 10044240710     PISSN: 09354964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00162-004-0113-9     Document Type: Article

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