Experimental study of the stabilization of Tollmien-Schlichting waves by finite amplitude streaks

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-15

  Fransson, Jens H M ^a   Brandt, Luca ^a   Talamelli, Alessandro ^a,b   Cossu, Carlo ^c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b University of Bologna   (Italy)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENT; STREAM FLOW;

CROSS-STREAM PLANES; INFLECTIONAL INSTABILITY; ROUGHNESS ELEMENTS; STREAKY BASE FLOW;

WAVE EFFECTS;

WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 20444385487     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1897377     Document Type: Article

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