The onset of instability in unsteady boundary-layer separation

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 315, Issue , 1996, Pages 223-256

  Cassel, K W ^a   Smith, F T ^b   Walker, J D A ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STABILITY;

EXTERNAL PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; GENERIC SEPARATION SINGULARITY; LAGRANGIAN COORDINATES; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; UNSTEADY BOUNDARY LAYER SEPARATION; UNSTEADY NONINTERACTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER EQUATIONS; VISCOUS INVISCID INTERACTION;

FLUID MECHANICS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; INSTABILITY; MODELLING-MATHEMATICS; SEPARATION;

EID: 0030131290     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112096002406     Document Type: Article

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