Criteria of turbulent transition in parallel flows

Modern Physics Letters B

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1437-1440

  Dou, Hua Shu ^a   Khoo, Boo Cheong ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Criteria; Energy gradient; Role of disturbance; Singularity; Turbulent transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953175248     PISSN: 02179849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217984910023815     Document Type: Conference Paper

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