On the spatial structure of global linear instabilities and their experimental identification

Aerospace Science and Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 249-262

  Theofilis, Vassilios ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Laminar turbulent flow transition; Nonparallel linear instability; Partial derivative eigenvalue problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034403049     PISSN: 12709638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1270-9638(00)00137-1     Document Type: Article

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