Simple cases of the streamline-curvature instability in three-dimensional boundary layers

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 317, Issue , 1996, Pages 129-154

  Itoh, Nobutake ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTATION; STABILITY; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW;

STREAMLINE-CURVATURE INSTABILITY; SWEPT WING;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; INSTABILITY; STREAMLINES(FLOW;

EID: 0030153042     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112096000699     Document Type: Article

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