Universality of probability density distributions in the overlap region in high Reynolds number turbulent boundary layers

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2587-2591

  Lindgren, Björn ^a   Johansson, Arne V ^a   Tsuji, Yoshiyuki ^b  

^a Department of Mechanics ^*  (Sweden)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; VISCOUS FLOW;

EXPANSION APPROXIMATION; MOMENTUM LOSS;

TURBULENT FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VELOCIMETRY;

EID: 3242740099     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1738416     Document Type: Article

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