Experiments on the stability of streamwise streaks in plane Poiseuille flow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 915-930

  Elofsson, Per A ^a,c   Kawakami, Mitsuyoshi ^b,c   Alfredsson, P Henrik ^c  

^a VOLVO CAR CORPORATION   (Sweden)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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EID: 0001325219     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869962     Document Type: Article

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