Formation of a recirculation zone in low Re-number turbulence

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1424-1434

  Kollmann, W ^a   Umont, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXI-SYMMETRIC; BEFORE AND AFTER; CRITICAL POINTS; CYLINDRICAL COORDINATES; DIRECT SIMULATIONS; FOURIER MODES; INTERPOLATION FUNCTIONS; LYAPUNOV EXPONENTS; MIXING SETS; POINCARE; POLE CONDITIONS; RECIRCULATION BUBBLES; RECIRCULATION ZONES; STRUCTURAL INSTABILITIES; SWIRLING JETS; UNSTABLE MANIFOLDS;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EQUATIONS OF STATE;

EID: 65049083256     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2008.01.037     Document Type: Article

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