Elastic turbulence in von Karman swirling flow between two disks

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Burghelea, Teodor ^a   Segre, Enrico ^b   Steinberg, Victor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; ELASTICITY; FLOW STRUCTURE; POLYMER SOLUTIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TAYLOR SERIES; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTICITY;

ELASTIC STRESS; ELASTIC TURBULENCE; VELOCITY GRADIENT; VON KARMAN SWIRLING FLOW;

SWIRLING FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; ELASTICITY; FLOW STRUCTURE; POLYMER SOLUTIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SWIRLING FLOW; TAYLOR SERIES; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTICITY;

EID: 34250001937     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2732234     Document Type: Article

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