  The goal of this article is to establish several general properties of a
somewhat large class of partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms called
\emph{discretized Anosov flows}. A general definition for these systems is
presented and is proven to be equivalent with the definition introduced in
[BFFP19], as well as with the notion of flow type partially hyperbolic
diffeomorphisms introduced in [BFT20].
  The set of discretized Anosov flows is shown to be $C^1$ open and closed
inside the set of partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms. Every discretized
Anosov flow is proven to be dynamically coherent and plaque expansive. Unique
integrability of the center bundle is shown to happen for whole connected
components, notably the ones containing the time 1 map of an Anosov flow. For
general connected components, a result on uniqueness of invariant foliation is
obtained.
  Similar results are seen to happen for partially hyperbolic systems admitting
a uniformly compact center foliation extending the studies initiated in [BB16].
