Topology of fine-scale motions in turbulent channel flow

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 310, Issue , 1996, Pages 269-292

  Blackburn, Hugh M ^a,d   Mansour, Nagi N ^b   Cantwell, Brian J ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c 496 Lomita Mall   (United States)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNELS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; TURBULENT FLOW;

KINETIC ENERGY; VELOCITY GRADIENT FIELD;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRAIN RATE; TENSORS; TOPOLOGY; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WALL FLOW;

CHANNEL FLOW;

EID: 0030088183     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112096001802     Document Type: Article

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