Linear stability analysis of plane quadratic flows in a rotating frame with applications to modeling

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 2300-2309

  Salhi, Abdelaziz ^a   Cambon, Claude ^b   Speziale, Charles G ^c  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STABILITY; STABILITY CRITERIA; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRUCTURAL FRAMES; TURBULENCE;

BRADSHAW NUMBER; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; QUADRATIC FLOW; RAPID DISTORTION THEORY;

SHEAR FLOW;

FLOW STABILITY; ROTATING FLOW; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0031204239     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869351     Document Type: Article

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