Experimental and numerical investigations of flow structure and momentum transport in a turbulent buoyancy-driven flow inside a tilted tube

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1-10

  Znaien, J ^a   Hallez, Y ^b,d   Moisy, F ^a   Magnaudet, J ^b,d   Hulin, J P ^a   Salin, D ^a   Hinch, E J ^c  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d IMFT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW STRUCTURE; MIXING; MOMENTUM; SECONDARY FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; TUBES (COMPONENTS); TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOUS FLOW;

BUOYANCY DRIVEN FLOWS; LASER-INDUCED FLUORESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; TURBULENT SHEAR FLOWS; TURBULENT SHEAR STRESS; TURBULENT STRUCTURES; TURBULENT VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 76249104625     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3259972     Document Type: Article

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