Evidence for transient disturbance growth in a 1961 pipe-flow experiment

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 242-244

  Mayer, Ernst W ^a   Reshotko, Eli ^a  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNELS; PIPE FLOW; TRANSIENTS;

EID: 0030996722     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869167     Document Type: Article

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