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A note on the stability of developing laminar pipe flow subjected to axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric disturbances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

Turgut Sarpkaya
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California 93940

Abstract

This paper presents a summary of the results of an extensive experimental investigation of the problem considered by Tatsumi (1952a, b) and more recently by Huang & Chen (1974a, b). The results, like the analyses, show that the linear instability is confined to the non-similar inlet region of the pipe.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1975 Cambridge University Press

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