The dynamic mechanism for turbulent drag reduction using rigid fibers based on Lagrangian conditional statistics

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1-18

  Paschkewitz, J S ^a   Dubief, Yves ^b   Shaqfeh, Eric S G ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; FIBERS; FLUID DYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SHEAR STRESS; VORTEX FLOW;

FIBER STRESS CONTRIBUTIONS; RIGID FIBERS; STRESS FLUCTUATIONS; TURBULENT DRAG REDUCTION;

TURBULENT FLOW;

LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS;

EID: 21244431575     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1925447     Document Type: Article

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