Evidence of very long meandering features in the logarithmic region of turbulent boundary layers

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 579, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-28

  Hutchins, N ^a   Marusic, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLOW VELOCITY; ONE DIMENSIONAL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC FLOW; STREAMWISE TURBULENCE; STREAMWISE VELOCITY; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLOW VELOCITY; ONE DIMENSIONAL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CHANNEL FLOW; PIPE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENT FLOW; WAKE;

EID: 34248209527     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112006003946     Document Type: Article

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