Internal wave generation from rough topography

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Aguilar, D A ^a   Sutherland, B R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE;

BOUNDARY LAYER SEPARATION; INTERNAL WAVE GENERATION; ROUGH TOPOGRAPHY;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 33745608427     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2214538     Document Type: Article

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