Characteristics of secondary flow induced by 90-degree elbow in turbulent pipe flow

Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 229-239

  Kim, Jongtae ^a   Yadav, Mohan ^b   Kim, Seungjin ^b  

^a Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

90 degree bent elbow; CFD; Secondary flow; Swirl intensity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901799017     PISSN: 19942060     EISSN: 1997003X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19942060.2014.11015509     Document Type: Article

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