Comparison of mean flow similarity laws in zero pressure gradient turbulent boundary layers

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Monkewitz, Peter A ^a   Chauhan, Kapil A ^b   Nagib, Hassan M ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATION THEORY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY;

COMPUTATIONAL DATA; INTEGRAL PARAMETERS; MEAN VELOCITY PROFILES; NORMAL COORDINATE; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; ZERO PRESSURE GRADIENT; ZERO-PRESSURE GRADIENT TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 55849103868     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2972935     Document Type: Conference Paper

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