Stability of Taylor-Couette flow in a finite-length cavity with radial throughflow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Serre, Eric ^a   Sprague, Michael A ^b   Lueptow, Richard M ^c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; VORTEX FLOW;

TAYLOR-COUETTE FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPECTRAL METHOD;

RADIAL FLOW;

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; RADIAL FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 41849119459     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2884835     Document Type: Article

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