A loss of memory in stratified momentum wakes

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 298-305

  Meunier, Patrice ^a   Spedding, Geoffrey R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; KINETIC ENERGY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

FROUDE NUMBERS; MOMENTUM FLUX;

WAKES;

GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; STRATIFIED FLOW; VORTEX SHEDDING; WAKE;

EID: 1542347866     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1630053     Document Type: Article

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