A model of spatial algebraic growth in a boundary layer subjected to a streamwise pressure gradient

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1521-1523

  Tumin, Anatoli ^a,b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

SPATIAL ALGEBRAIC GROWTH;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYER; PRESSURE GRADIENT; STEADY FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 0035340147     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1361094     Document Type: Article

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