Instabilities of the flow in a curved channel with compliant walls

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 463, Issue 2085, 2007, Pages 2201-2222

  Guaus, Anaïs ^a,b   Bottaro, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b IMFT   (France)

Author keywords

Compliant walls; Curved channel flow; Dean vortices; Flow induced surface instabilities; Hydrodynamic stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 36348984552     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2007.1869     Document Type: Article

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