Transitional and weakly turbulent flow in a rotating magnetic field

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Stiller, Joerg ^a   Frana K ^a   Cramer, A ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; TURBULENCE; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

CYLINDRICAL GEOMETRY; LINEAR STABILITY LIMIT; SUBCRITICAL TAYLOR NUMBERS;

TURBULENT FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33746695358     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2221347     Document Type: Article

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