Vortex shedding from a circular cylinder of finite length at low Reynolds numbers

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Inoue, Osamu ^a   Sakuragi, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR CYLINDERS; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; UNSTEADY FLOW; WAKES;

TRANSITION PROCESS; WAKE PATTERN;

VORTEX SHEDDING;

CIRCULAR CYLINDERS; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; UNSTEADY FLOW; VORTEX SHEDDING; WAKES;

EID: 41849123466     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2844875     Document Type: Article

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