Papers Published

1. Kimura, S. and Bejan, A., The buckling of a vertical liquid column, Trans. ASME, J. Fluids Eng. (USA), vol. 105 no. 4 (1983), pp. 469 - 73 .
   (last updated on 2007/04/08)

   Abstract:
   Documents the sinous flow of a vertical water column which impinges on a horizontal surface. It is shown experimentally that the solid obstacle buckles the column into a plane sinuous (static) shape whose wavelength scales with the local column diameter. The measured ratio (buckling wavelength)/(column diameter) is of order π/2, in agreement with the buckling theory of inviscid flow

   Keywords:
   buckling;pipe flow;