Combined effects of elevated free-stream turbulence and streamwise acceleration on flow and thermal structures in transitional boundary layers

Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 338-351

  Zhou, Dadong ^a   Wang, Ting ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration flow; Favorable pressure gradient; Free stream turbulence; Reynolds heat flux; Transitional flow; Turbulent Prandtl number

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; HEAT FLUX; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PRANDTL NUMBER; THERMAL DIFFUSION; TRANSITION FLOW; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY;

FREE STREAM TURBULENCE INTENSITY; REYNOLDS HEAT FLUXES; REYNOLDS STRESSES; STREAMWISE ACCELERATION; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; THERMAL STRUCTURES; TRANSITIONAL BOUNDARY LAYERS; TURBULENT THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; FLOW; FREE-STREAM; STRUCTURES; THERMAL; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0029676620     PISSN: 08941777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0894-1777(95)00125-5     Document Type: Article

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