Experimental investigation of vortex properties in a turbulent boundary layer

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Ganapathisubramani, Bharathram ^a,b   Longmire, Ellen K ^a   Marusic, Ivan ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TENSORS; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAKES;

BACKWARD-LEANING CORES; FORWARD-LEANING EDDIES; INCLINATION ANGLES; VELOCITY GRADIENT TENSOR; VORTEX IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUE;

VORTEX FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TENSORS; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

EID: 33744783118     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2196089     Document Type: Article

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