Flow of newtonian and power-law fluids past an elliptical cylinder: A numerical study

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 6649-6661

  Koteswara Rao, P ^a   Sahu, Akhilesh K ^a   Chhabra, R P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL VALUE; ELLIPTICAL CYLINDER; FLOW REGIMES; FLUID BEHAVIOR; MOMENTUM EQUATION; NEWTONIANS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; NUMERICAL STUDIES; ON FLOW; POWER LAW FLUID; POWER LAW INDEX; SHEAR THINNING; SHEAR-THICKENING FLUIDS; VELOCITY VECTORS; WAKE FORMATION;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DRAG; FLOW SEPARATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; LAMINAR FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW; VORTEX SHEDDING; WAKES;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 78449288254     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie100251w     Document Type: Article

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