Very large structures in plane turbulent Couette flow

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 320, Issue , 1996, Pages 259-285

  Komminaho, Jukka ^a   Lundbladh, Anders ^b,c   Johansson, Arne V ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Aeronautical Research Institute of Sweden   (Sweden)

^c VOLVO AERO CORPORATION   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STATISTICS; WALL FLOW;

COUETTE FLOW; KINETIC ENERGY;

TURBULENT FLOW;

COUETTE FLOW; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0030207799     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112096007537     Document Type: Article

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