Large-scale amplitude modulation of the small-scale structures in turbulent boundary layers

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 628, Issue , 2009, Pages 311-337

  Mathis, Romain ^a   Hutchins, Nicholas ^a   Marusic, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; REYNOLDS EQUATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE LAYERS; FLUCTUATING VELOCITIES; HILBERT TRANSFORMATIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NEAR-WALL FLUCTUATIONS; SMALL-SCALE STRUCTURES; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW STRUCTURE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

EID: 67650930746     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009006946     Document Type: Article

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