Rebirth of turbulence in laminarized boundary layers along the wind-tunnel contraction

39th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Nishizawa, Akira ^a   Takagi, Shohei ^a   Tokugawa, Naoko ^a   Sobagaki, Tadashi ^b  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; LAMINAR BOUNDARY LAYER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

ACCELERATED FLOWS; HOT-FILM MEASUREMENT; HOT-WIRE MEASUREMENTS; INTERMITTENCY FACTORS; LONGITUDINAL VORTICES; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; TURBULENT STRUCTURES; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 4243591567     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2001-277     Document Type: Conference Paper

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