A short note on the reattachment length for BFS problem

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 683-692

  Kanna, P Rajesh ^a   Das, Manab Kumar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

Backward step flow; Clustered grids; Energy solution; Numerical solution; Reattachment length

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STEADY FLOW; VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW;

BACKWARD STEP FLOW; CLUSTERED GRIDS; ENERGY SOLUTION; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; REATTACHMENT LENGTH;

LAMINAR FLOW;

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; LAMINAR FLOW; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STEADY FLOW; VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 32544435271     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1064     Document Type: Article

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