Experimental and theoretical progress in pipe flow transition

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

Volumn 366, Issue 1876, 2008, Pages 2671-2684

  Willis, A P ^a   Peixinho, J ^b   Kerswell, R R ^a   Mullin, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experimental; Numerical; Pipe; Transition

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; MIXED CONVECTION; PIPE; PIPE FLOW; RESEARCH; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

CENTURY (CO); FLOW TRANSITIONS; FOCUS OF ATTENTION (FOA); HAGEN-POISEUILLE FLOW; IN-PIPE; NUMERICA L RESULTS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; REYNOLDS (CO); REYNOLDS (RE) NUMBER FLOW; THRESHOLD AMPLITUDES; TRANSITION TO TURBULENCE; TRAVELLING WAVE SOLUTIONS; TURBULENT PIPE FLOWS;

TURBULENCE;

EID: 46349092901     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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