Experimental evidence of streamwise vortices as finite amplitude solutions in transitional plane Couette flow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2597-2607

  Bottin, S ^a   Dauchot, O ^a   Daviaud, F ^a   Manneville, P ^a,b  

^a CENTRE D ETUDES DE SACLAY   (France)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

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EID: 0000856221     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869773     Document Type: Article

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