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Identification of boundary surfaces in flows

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  • 1. Department d’Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Avinguda Països Catalans 26, Tarragona 43007, Spain;
    2. Department d’Enginyeria Mecànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Avinguda Països Catalans 26, Tarragona 43007, Spain

Received date: 2010-03-20

  Revised date: 2010-06-14

  Online published: 2010-09-01

Abstract

In this study, boundary surfaces of a flow field are defined as stream surfaces, on which the shear rates vanish, and a procedure is proposed to find them. The method, based on calculations using the velocity vector field, is independent of the coordinate system adopted.

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B.HERRERA;J.PALLARES . Identification of boundary surfaces in flows[J]. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2010 , 31(09) : 1097 -1104 . DOI: 10.1007/s10483-010-1345-7

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