Examination of a critical roughness height for outer layer similarity

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Flack, K A ^a   Schultz, M P ^a   Connelly, J S ^a  

^a UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SAND; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENT FLOW; WALL FLOW;

SANDGRAIN; WALL TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; WOVEN MESH;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; SAND; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENT FLOW; WALL FLOW;

EID: 34547726079     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2757708     Document Type: Article

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