The instability of the separated shear layer from a bluff body

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1347-1349

  Prasad, Anil ^a   Williamson, Charles H K ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODIES-BLUFF; INSTABILITY; SHEAR LAYERS;

EID: 0029673409     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.868942     Document Type: Article

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