An experimental investigation of the characteristics of free-surface turbulence in channel flow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 437-456

  Kumar, S ^a   Gupta, R ^a   Banerjee, S ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PRANDTL NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE TENSION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FREE SURFACE; PARTICLE IMAGING VELOCIMETRY; SCHMIDT NUMBER;

TURBULENCE;

CHANNEL; FREE SURFACE FLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; TURBULENCE;

CHANNEL FLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0032004249     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869573     Document Type: Article

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