Excitation of shear layer instability in flow past a cylinder at low Reynolds number

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1147-1167

  Mittal, Sanjay ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Cylinder; Secondary cylinder; Shear layer instability; Suppression; Vortex shedding; Wake bubble

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW; VORTEX SHEDDING; WAKES;

SECONDARY CYLINDER; SHEAR LAYER INSTABILITY; WAKE BUBBLE;

SHEAR FLOW;

CYLINDER; FLOW AROUND OBJECT; INSTABILITY; VORTEX SHEDDING; WAKE;

EID: 28144443987     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1043     Document Type: Article

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