The pinch-off process in a starting buoyant plume

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 87-94

  Pottebaum, T S ^a   Gharib, M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONDENSATION; EVAPORATION; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THIN FILMS; VAPORS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW;

BUOYANT PLUMES; CLOUD FORMATIONS; VORTEX RINGS; VORTICITY;

BUOYANCY;

FLUID DYNAMICS; PLUME; VELOCIMETRY; VORTEX RING;

EID: 3142671236     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-004-0788-0     Document Type: Article

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