Bifurcation characteristics of flows in rectangular sudden expansion channels

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 671-679

  Battaglia, Francine ^a   Papadopoulos, George ^b  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Channel flow; Critical Reynolds number; Effective expansion ratio; Sudden expansion

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION DYNAMICS; CRITICAL REYNOLDS NUMBER; EFFECTIVE EXPANSION RATIO; SUDDEN EXPANSION;

CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAMINAR FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 33747107090     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2201639     Document Type: Article

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