Homotopy of exact coherent structures in plane shear flows

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1517-1534

  Waleffe, Fabian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

POISEUILLE FLOWS;

SHEAR FLOW;

FLOW MODELING; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0037831083     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1566753     Document Type: Article

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