Secondary instabilities in the flow around two circular cylinders in tandem

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 644, Issue , 2010, Pages 395-431

  Carmo, Bruno S ^a   Meneghini, Julio R ^b   Sherwin, Spencer J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REYNOLDS NUMBER; WAKES;

CIRCULAR CYLINDERS IN TANDEM ARRANGEMENT; CRITICAL REYNOLDS NUMBER; CYLINDER DIAMETERS; DIRECT STABILITY ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR CHARACTERS; SECONDARY INSTABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL INSTABILITY; TWO CIRCULAR CYLINDERS IN TANDEMS;

CIRCULAR CYLINDERS;

BIFURCATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRITICAL FLOW; CYLINDER; FLOW MODELING; FLOW STABILITY; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAKE;

EID: 77952396739     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009992473     Document Type: Article

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