Observation of vortex packets in direct numerical simulation of fully turbulent channel flow

Journal of Visualization

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 9-19

  Adrian, R J ^a   Liu, Z C ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct numerical simulation; Hairpin vortex packets; Hairpin vortices; Structure; Wall eddies; Wall turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044533413     PISSN: 13438875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03182598     Document Type: Article

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