International Journal of Rotating Machinery
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 635138, 27 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/635138
Research Article

Turbulence Modeling of Torsional Couette Flows

Laboratoire M2P2, UMR 6181, CNRS, Universités d'Aix-Marseille, IMT la Jetée, Technopôle Château-Gombert, 38 rue F. Joliot-Curie, 13451 Marseille Cédex 20, France

Received 7 May 2008; Revised 2 September 2008; Accepted 2 October 2008

Academic Editor: Osamu Nozaki

Copyright © 2008 Sofia Haddadi and Sébastien Poncet. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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