Initial streamwise vorticity formation in a two-stream mixing layer

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 319, Issue , 1996, Pages 251-279

  Tung, Steve ^a,b   Kleis, Stanley J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW MEASUREMENT; MIXING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STREAM FLOW; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ENSEMBLE AVERAGE VORTICITY COMPONENTS; SPANWISE STRUCTURES; TWO STREAM MIXING LAYERS;

VORTEX FLOW;

MIXING(LIQUID/LIQUID); VORTICITY;

EID: 0030186088     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112096007331     Document Type: Article

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