New mixing-length approach for the mean velocity profile of turbulent boundary layers

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 393-396

  Buschmann, M H ^a   Gad el Hak, M ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Virginia Commonwealth University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DAMPING; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRATION; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISCOUS FLOW; WALL FLOW;

ALGEBRIC TURBULENCE MODELS; ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOR; MIXING LENGTH APPROACH; VELOCITY PROFILES;

TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 20444466569     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1881701     Document Type: Article

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