Core instabilities and "bridging" in the first pairing of plane mixing layers

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1688-1690

  Estevadeordal, Jordi ^a   Kleis, Stanley J ^b  

^a INNOVATIVE SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

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EID: 0009808479     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870032     Document Type: Article

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