Decaying grid-generated turbulence in a rotating tank

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1-11

  Morize, C ^a   Moisy, F ^a   Rabaud, M ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; ROTATIONAL FLOW; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TANKS (CONTAINERS); VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW;

CYCLONIC VORTICITY; ENERGY TRANSFERS; GRID-GENERATED TURBULENCE; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; ROSSBY NUMBER; ROTATING TANK;

TURBULENCE;

DECAY; ROTATION; TANK; TURBULENCE;

EID: 27144493202     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2046710     Document Type: Article

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