Creeping flow through an axisymmetric sudden contraction or expansion

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 273-278

  Sisavath, Sourith ^a   Jing, Xudong ^a   Pain, Chris C ^a   Zimmerman, Robert W ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPANSION; LAMINAR FLOW; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; ORIFICES; PIPE; PRESSURE DROP; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SHRINKAGE;

FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; FINITE EXPANSION RATIO; FLUID TRANSPORT; NEWTONIAN FLUID;

FLOW MEASUREMENT;

EID: 10844250323     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1430669     Document Type: Article

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