Vortex ring formation at the open end of a shock tube: A particle image velocimetry study

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1008-1019

  Arakeri, J H ^a,b   Das, D ^a,c   Krothapalli, A ^a   Lourenco, L ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JETS; SHOCK TUBES; SHOCK WAVES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

SHOCH MACH NUMBERS; VORTEX RING DETACHMENT;

VORTEX FLOW;

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETER; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; VORTEX; VORTEX RING;

EID: 1842785559     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1649339     Document Type: Article

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