Transition of free disturbances in inflectional flow over an isolated surface roughness

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 455, Issue 1982, 1999, Pages 491-541

  Savin, D J ^a   Smith, F T ^a   Allen, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Fluid dynamics; Inflection; Nonlinear problems; Roughness; Transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746436206     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1999.0322     Document Type: Article

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