Vortex formation and saturation for low-aspect-ratio rotating flat-plate fins

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 441-462

  DeVoria, Adam C ^a   Ringuette, Matthew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; DIGITAL PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; DYE FLOW-VISUALIZATION; DYE VISUALIZATION; FLAT PLATE; FLOW SYMMETRY; LOWER BOUNDS; PINCHOFF; PLATE VELOCITY; ROTATIONAL AMPLITUDES; SATURATION TIME; TEMPORAL DEVELOPMENT; TIME-VARYING VORTICES; TIP VORTEX; VORTEX CIRCULATION; VORTEX FORMATION; VORTEX STRUCTURES;

AERODYNAMICS; ASPECT RATIO; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); FLOW VISUALIZATION; FORCED CONVECTION; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); REYNOLDS NUMBER; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY; WATER TANKS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84861830303     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-011-1230-z     Document Type: Article

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