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A computer controlled, finite duration “steady” flow facility

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A novel and relatively simple flow facility was designed and fabricated to study the instability characteristics of a slit-jet flow field. The performance of the flow facility has been found to be statisfactory. The operation of this gravity driven, finite duration, “steady” flow facility was based upon an inviscid flow model. This technique to establish a finite duration “steady” flow field is quite general in nature and can be easily adapted to other flow fields of interest.

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  1. S. K. Ali

    Present address: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences & Technology, Topi, NWFP, Pakistan

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University, 48824, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

    S. K. Ali & J. F. Foss

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The authors are pleased to acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation grant MEA-8216946. Efforts of Irwin Lawson, John Joyce and Richard Haw are also acknowledged; they provided help on various aspects of the flow facility.

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Ali, S.K., Foss, J.F. A computer controlled, finite duration “steady” flow facility. Experiments in Fluids 19, 250–254 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00196473

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