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Identification of boundary surfaces in flows

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

    B. Herrera

  2. Department d’Enginyeria Mecànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Avinguda Països Catalans 26, Tarragona, 43007, Spain

    J. Pallares

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Communicated by Zhe-wei ZHOU

Project supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science of Technology and FEDER (No. DPI2006-0477)

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Herrera, B., Pallares, J. Identification of boundary surfaces in flows. Appl. Math. Mech.-Engl. Ed. 31, 1097–1104 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10483-010-1345-7

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