Rough-pipe flows and the existence of fully developed turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Gioia, G ^a   Chakraborty, Pinaki ^a   Bombardelli, Fabián A ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluctuations; Friction; Pipe flow; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

FLOW MEASUREMENT; FRICTION; PIPE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ROUGH PIPE FLOWS; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS;

TURBULENCE;

FLOW MEASUREMENT; FRICTION; PIPE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33645470614     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2189285     Document Type: Article

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