Three-dimensional Floquet instability of the wake of square cylinder

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 11, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 560-578

  Robichaux, J ^a   Balachandar, S ^b   Vanka, S P ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 0001058397     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869930     Document Type: Article

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