The generation of Tollmien-Schlichting waves by free-stream turbulence

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 312, Issue , 1996, Pages 341-371

  Duck, P W ^a   Ruban, A I ^b   Zhikharev, C N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL AEROHYDRODYNAMIC INSTITUTE TSAGI   (Russian Federation)

^c Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; TOLLMIEN-SCHLICHTING; TURBULENCE; WAVES;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; MECHANICAL WAVES; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RHEOLOGY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW;

BLASIUS BOUNDARY LAYER; FREE STREAM TURBULENCE; MULTISCALE ASYMPTOTIC TECHNIQUES; SINGULARITY; TOLLMIEN-SCHLICHTING WAVE GENERATION; VORTICITY DEFORMATION LAYER; VORTICITY WAVE SUPERPOSITION;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0030111538     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112096002042     Document Type: Article

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