The structure of turbulent boundary layers in the wall region of plane channel flow

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

Volumn 463, Issue 2078, 2007, Pages 593-612

  Alfonsi, Giancarlo ^a   Primavera, Leonardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Navier Stokes equations; Proper orthogonal decomposition; Wall bounded turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 36348944106     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2006.1785     Document Type: Article

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