Vortical structure morphology in the initial region of a forced mixing layer: Roll-up and pairing

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 315, Issue , 1996, Pages 175-221

  Leboeuf, Richard L ^a   Mehta, Rabindra D ^b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial for Computational and Mathematical Engineering   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER MODELS; FORCED LAYERS; MIXING; MORPHOLOGY; VORTICITY;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; LAMINAR FLOW; MIXING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRESSES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND TUNNELS;

ACOUSTIC FORCING; SPANWISE VORTICITY; STREAMWISE RIB CIRCULATION; STREAMWISE VORTICITY; STRESS MEASUREMENTS; TAYLOR HYPOTHESIS; VORTEX PAIRING; VORTEX ROLLUP;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 0030131295     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002211209600239X     Document Type: Article

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