Self-similarity and mixing characteristics of turbulent mixing layers starting from laminar initial conditions

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1714-1728

  Ansari, Amid ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXING(LIQUID/LIQUID); SIMULATION-NUMERICAL; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0030846861     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869288     Document Type: Article

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