Numerical investigations of flow over a sphere in the subcritical and supercritical regimes

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1449-1466

  Constantinescu, George ^a   Squires, Kyle ^b  

^a IA United States   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPHERES; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

LAMINAR-TO-TURBULENT TRANSMISSION; SKIN FRICTION; SUPERCRITICAL FLOW; VORTEX DYNAMICS;

LAMINAR FLOW;

FLOW OVER SURFACE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SUPERCRITICAL FLOW; VORTEX SHEDDING;

EID: 2442680126     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1688325     Document Type: Article

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