A physical model of the turbulent boundary layer consonant with mean momentum balance structure

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

Volumn 365, Issue 1852, 2007, Pages 823-840

  Klewicki, Joe ^a   Fife, Paul ^b   Wei, Tie ^d   McMurtry, Pat ^c  

^a Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^d The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow physics; Mean momentum balance; Scaling; Wall turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847201135     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1944     Document Type: Review

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