Coherent structures near the wall in a turbulent channel flow

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 332, Issue , 1997, Pages 185-214

  Jeong, J ^a   Hussain, F ^a   Schoppa, W ^a   Kim, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WALL FLOW;

COHERENT STRUCTURE; VORTICAL STRUCTURE;

CHANNEL FLOW;

CHANNELS; SIMULATION-NUMERICAL; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0031080711     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0022112096003965     Document Type: Article

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