Investigation of effects of scale and surface roughness on efficiency of water jet pumps using CFD

Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 14-25

  Aldas K ^a   Yapici, R ^b  

^a AKSARAY UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

CFD; Flow simulation; Jet pump; Roughness effect; Scale effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896984862     PISSN: 19942060     EISSN: 1997003X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19942060.2014.11015494     Document Type: Article

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