Effect of time-dependent piston velocity program on vortex ring formation in a piston/cylinder arrangement

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Shusser, Michael ^a   Rosenfeld, Moshe ^b   Dabiri, John O ^c   Gharib, Morteza ^c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Laminar flow; Nozzles; Pistons; Vortices

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NOZZLES; PISTONS;

VORTEX CIRCULATION; VORTEX RING FORMATION; VORTEX RINGS;

VORTEX FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NOZZLES; PISTONS; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 33645467965     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2188918     Document Type: Article

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