Aero-optical wavefronts and scale-local characterization in large-Reynolds-number compressible turbulence

AIAA Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1982-1990

  Aguirre, Roberto C ^a,b   Catrakis, Haris J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Henry Samueli School of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ANISOTROPY; COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTORTION (WAVES); EXTRAPOLATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TURBULENT FLOW; WAVEFRONTS;

AERO-OPTICAL-WAVEFRONT-ANISOTROPY (AWA); AERO-OPTICS; MACH NUMBERS; OPTICAL IMAGING;

TURBULENCE;

EID: 7044240877     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.548     Document Type: Article

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