Self-similarity of time-evolving plane wakes

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 367, Issue , 1998, Pages 255-289

  Moser, Robert D ^a   Rogers, Michael M ^b   Ewing, Daniel W ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c the State University of New York   (United States)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENCE;

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PLANE WAKE;

WAKES;

EID: 0032120012     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112098001426     Document Type: Article

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