Large- and very-large-scale motions in channel and boundary-layer flows

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

Volumn 365, Issue 1852, 2007, Pages 665-681

  Balakumar, B J ^a,c   Adrian, R J ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel flow; Hairpin vortex packets; Large scale motions; Long wavelength motions; Travelling wave solutions; Very large scale motions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847224136     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1940     Document Type: Article

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