On the origins of unsteadiness and three-dimensionality in a laminar separation bubble

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1777, 2000, Pages 3229-3246

  Theofilis, Vassilios ^a   Hein, Stefan ^a   Dallmann, Uwe ^a  

^a Inst of Fluid Mechanics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global instability; Laminar separation bubble; Linear non local instability; Structural instability; Topological flow changes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347307158     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2000.0706     Document Type: Article

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