Visualization and characterization of small-scale spanwise vortices in turbulent channel flow

Journal of Visualization

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 177-185

  Christensen, K T ^a   Wu, Y ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

PIV; Turbulence structure; Vortex visualization; Wall turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849089104     PISSN: 13438875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03181661     Document Type: Article

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