Hairpin vortex organization in wall turbulencea

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Adrian, Ronald J ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

HAIRPIN VORTEX PARADIGM; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; WALL TURBULENCE;

TURBULENCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 34248154767     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2717527     Document Type: Article

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