Pipe flow transition threshold following localized impulsive perturbations

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Mellibovsky, Fernando ^a   Meseguer, Alvaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TRANSITION FLOW; TURBULENCE;

DESTABILIZING EFFECTS; LOCALIZED IMPULSIVE PERTURBATIONS; PERTURBAITON VELOCITY FIELD;

PIPE FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PIPE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TRANSITION FLOW; TURBULENCE;

EID: 34248231792     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2719576     Document Type: Article

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