Effects of channel geometry on buoyancy-driven mixing

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Hallez, Yannick ^a   Magnaudet, Jacques ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; FLOW FIELDS; MIXING; PIPE FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY;

GRAVITATIONAL MIXING; MIXING DYNAMICS;

CHANNEL FLOW;

BUOYANCY; CHANNEL FLOW; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; FLOW FIELDS; MIXING; PIPE FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY;

EID: 44649185723     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2918379     Document Type: Article

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