The wall-normal position in pipe and channel flows at which viscous and turbulent shear stresses are equal

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3186-3188

  Sahay, Anupam ^a   Sreenivasan, Katepalli R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; PIPE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRENGTH; TURBULENT FLOW; VISCOUS FLOW;

WALL-NORMAL POSITION;

FLOW INTERACTIONS;

EID: 0032606189     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870174     Document Type: Article

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