Influence of small imperfections on the stability of plane Poiseuille flow: A theoretical model and direct numerical simulation

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2852-2863

  Luo, Jisheng ^a   Wu, Xuesong ^a,b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS (DNS); POISEUILLE FLOW; TOLLMIEN SCHLICHTING (TS);

FLUID DYNAMICS;

FLOW MODELING; POISEUILLE FLOW; STABILITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 4344593585     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1760100     Document Type: Article

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