An experimental study of the decay of turbulent puffs in pipe flow

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1888, 2009, Pages 589-599

  De Lozar, Alberto ^a   Hof, Björn ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lifetimes; Pipe flow; Transition to turbulence

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF STATE; EXPERIMENTS; PIPE; PIPE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

CRITICAL POINTS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; LIFETIMES; SCALING BEHAVIOURS; TRANSITION TO TURBULENCE; TURBULENT PUFFS;

TURBULENCE;

EID: 58149140367     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0199     Document Type: Article

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