Local isotropy of the velocity and vorticity fields in a boundary layer at high Reynolds numbers

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Wallace, James M ^a   Ong, Lawrence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; NASA; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR STRESS; VELOCITY; VORTICITY; WIND TUNNELS;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER; HOT-WIRE PROBES; INERTIAL SUBRANGE; ISOTROPIC SPECTRA; REYNOLDS SHEAR STRESS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STREAM-WISE VELOCITIES;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 55849146231     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3005842     Document Type: Conference Paper

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