Plane Poiseuille flow of miscible layers with different viscosities: Instabilities in the Stokes flow regime

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 686, Issue , 2011, Pages 486-506

  Talon, L ^a,b   Meiburg, E ^b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

core annular flow; instability; low Reynolds number flows

Indexed keywords

PIPE FLOW; PLASMA STABILITY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISCOSITY;

CORE-ANNULAR FLOW; DESTABILIZING EFFECT; FINITE REYNOLDS NUMBER; INTERFACE LOCATIONS; LAYERED POISEUILLE FLOWS; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER FLOW; PLANE POISEUILLE FLOW; STOKES FLOW REGIME;

STABILITY;

REYNOLDS NUMBER; STOKES FORMULA; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 84855518153     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.341     Document Type: Article

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