Pressure-driven miscible two-fluid channel flow with density gradients

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Sahu, K C ^a   Ding, H ^a   Valluri, P ^a   Matar, K O ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATIONS; CONCENTRATION-DEPENDENT; CONVECTIVE DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; DENSITY GRADIENTS; INCLINED CHANNELS; MODERATE REYNOLDS NUMBERS; PRESSURE-DRIVEN FLOWS; SPATIOTEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 65549125544     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3122779     Document Type: Article

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