Retardation of the onset of turbulence by minor viscosity contrasts

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 17, 2001, Pages

  Govindarajan, Rama ^a,b   L’vov, Victor S ^a   Procaccia, Itamar ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHANNEL FLOW; DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; DRAG; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; VORTEX FLOW;

PHASE VELOCITIES; WAVE NUMBERS;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 0035934782     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.174501     Document Type: Article

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