Instability and transition in curved channel flow

DOI10.1017/S0022112088003052zbMath0645.76049MaRDI QIDQ3789215

W. H. Finlay, Joseph B. Keller, Joel H. Ferziger

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

numerical investigationTaylor-Couette problemincompressible time-dependent Navier-Stokes equationsEckhaus stability boundarybifurcation limitscurved channel flowlaminar curved channel Poiseuille flownon-turbulent Taylor-Couette flowstreamwise-oriented Dean vorticesthree-dimensional pseudospectral simulationswavy Taylor vortices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects (76D10) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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