Studied for more than a century, first in the field of geophysics, flows over rotating discs
present a great diversity of complex instability behaviours that are not yet fully understood …

The objective of this book is to provide a comprehensive discussion of Fourier and
Chebyshev spectral methods for the computation of incom pressible viscous flows, based on …

Heat transfer continues to be a major field of interest to engineering and scientific
researchers, as well as designers, developers, and manufacturers. Considerable effort has …

In the three-dimensional boundary layer produced by a rotating disk, the experimentally well-
documented sharp transition from laminar to turbulent flow is shown to coincide with …

Both direct numerical simulation and theoretical stability analysis are performed together in
order to study the transition process to turbulence in a flow between a rotating and a …

The problems of fluid flow and heat transfer in a turbine disk cavity are highly complex under
rotation-induced Coriolis and buoyancy forces. This study aims to evaluate the influence …

Blood clot formation can be initiated by local flow conditions where regions of high shear
and long residence time regions, such as flow separation and stagnation, have been …

This chapter reviews striking features of boundary-layer instabilities induced by different
mechanisms and related to transition to turbulence in rotating flows with walls. Besides its …

The paper critically reviews the current state of the art in flow inside sidewall gaps of
hydraulic pumps and turbines. It describes the consequences of the presence of this type of …

This experimental study is devoted to the transition to turbulence of the flow confined
between a stationary and a rotating disk. Using visualization and video image analysis, we …