Spanwise structure and scale growth in turbulent boundary layers

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 490, Issue , 2003, Pages 37-74

  Tomkins, C D ^a   Adrian, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STREAM FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

BUFFER LAYERS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

FLUID FLOW; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; VORTEX;

EID: 0141787987     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112003005251     Document Type: Article

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