Laminar, transitional, and turbulent flows in rotor-stator cavities

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 42, Issue , 2010, Pages 229-248

  Launder, Brian ^a   Poncet, Sébastien ^b   Serre, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Cross flow instability; Ekman layer; LES; RANS closures; Rotor stator cavity; Three dimensional boundary layer

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTATING DISKS; STATORS; TURBULENT FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; CROSS-FLOW INSTABILITIES; EKMAN LAYERS; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; ORGANIZED STRUCTURE; ROTOR-STATOR CAVITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL BOUNDARY LAYERS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

SHEAR FLOW;

BASEFLOW; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW STABILITY; LAMINAR FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 77952789137     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-fluid-121108-145514     Document Type: Review

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