Buoyancy driven miscible front dynamics in tilted tubes

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Seon T ^a   Hulin, J P ^a   Salin, D ^a   Perrin, B ^b   Hinch, E J ^c  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE STATISTIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; MIXING; TUBES (COMPONENTS); VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

ATWOOD NUMBERS; FLOW REGIMES; INERTIAL VELOCITIES; TILT ANGLES;

BUOYANCY;

PHYSICS; VELOCITY;

EID: 15844366236     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1863332     Document Type: Article

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