Backward-facing step flows for various expansion ratios at low and moderate reynolds numbers

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 362-374

  Biswas, G ^a,b   Breuer, M ^a   Durst, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULICS; JETS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BACKWARD-FACING STEP; HYDRAULIC DIAMETER; SHEAR LAYERS; SPANWISE LOCATIONS;

REYNOLDS NUMBER;

EID: 11144351635     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1760532     Document Type: Article

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