An analysis of unsteady highly turbulent swirling flow in a model vortex combustor

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 177-187

  Fernandes, E C ^a   Heitor, M V ^a   Shtork, S I ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b KUTATELADZE INSTITUTE OF THERMOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTORS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; TURBULENT FLOW; UNSTEADY FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

FLOW INSTABILITY; INSTABILITY FREQUENCY; TURBULENT SWIRLING FLOW; VORTEX COMBUSTOR;

SWIRLING FLOW;

COMBUSTORS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; SWIRLING FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW; UNSTEADY FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 31144449993     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-005-0034-4     Document Type: Article

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