Transient growth of stationary disturbances in a flat plate boundary layer

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 4429-4439

  White, Edward B ^a  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENT FLOW;

TRANSIENT GROWTH;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYER; FLOW; LAMINAR FLOW; MODELING; TRANSIENT; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0036948369     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1521124     Document Type: Article

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