Instabilities of the Stewartson layer Part 2. Supercritical mode transitions

Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 18, Issue 2-4, 2004, Pages 197-204

  Hollerbach, Rainer ^a,b   Futterer, Birgit ^a,c   More, Tamar ^a   Egbers, Christoph ^a  

^a BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamic stability; Shear layers; Spherical Couette flow

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); HYDRODYNAMICS; ROTATION; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SPHERES; SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS;

HYDRODYNAMIC STABILITY; SHEAR LAYERS; SPHERICAL COUETTE FLOW; SUPERCRITICAL MODE TRANSITIONS;

SHEAR FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COUETTE FLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 10644250773     PISSN: 09354964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00162-004-0125-5     Document Type: Article

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