Curved two-stream turbulent mixing layers revisited

Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 190-205

  Plesniak, Michael W ^a   Mehta, Rabindra D ^b,c   Johnston, James P ^d  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Curvature; Experimental; Mixing layer; Turbulence; Two stream

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETERS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CHANNEL FLOW; FLOW VISUALIZATION; LAMINAR FLOW; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; MIXING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRESS CONCENTRATION; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

HOT WIRE ANEMOMETRY; LOW SPEED WATER CHANNELS; MIXING LAYERS; VELOCITY DIFFERENCE PARAMETER;

TURBULENT FLOW;

FLOW VISUALIZATION; MIXING; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0030266359     PISSN: 08941777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-1777(96)00080-5     Document Type: Article

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