Stability of flow through a slowly diverging pipe

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 531, Issue , 2005, Pages 325-334

  Sahu, Kirti Chandra ^a   Govindarajan, Rama ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PIPE; POISSON EQUATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE;

DIVERGENCE ANGLE; DIVERGING FLOWS; LINEAR INSTABILITY; MULTIGRID REYNOLDS NUMBER;

LAMINAR FLOW;

PIPE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

EID: 20444448533     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002211200500399X     Document Type: Article

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