Investigation of transition to turbulence using white-noise excitation and local analysis techniques

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 348, Issue , 1997, Pages 29-83

  Shaikh, F N ^a,b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b JAGUAR LAND ROVER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; FLOW PATTERNS; LAMINAR FLOW; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WHITE ACOUSTIC NOISE;

SINGULAR SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOLLIEN SCHLICHTING WAVES; WHITE NOISE EXCITATION TECHNIQUE;

TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0031247732     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112097006629     Document Type: Article

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