Experimental and numerical investigation of the competition between axisymmetric time-periodic modes in an enclosed swirling flow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Lopez, J M ^a   Cui, Y D ^b   Lim, T T ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Confined flow; Flow instability; Laminar to turbulent transitions; Numerical analysis; Pulsatile flow; Vortices

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CONFINED FLOW; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); LAMINAR FLOW; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PULSATILE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTATIONAL FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

FLOW INSTABILITY; HOPF BIFURCATION; HOT-FILM MEASUREMENTS; TIME-PERIODIC MODES;

SWIRLING FLOW;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CONFINED FLOW; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); LAMINAR FLOW; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PULSATILE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTATIONAL FLOW; SWIRLING FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 33750585494     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2362782     Document Type: Article

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