Spatial structure of a turbulent boundary layer with irregular surface roughness

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 655, Issue , 2010, Pages 380-418

  Wu, Y ^a,b   Christensen, K T ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Wright State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; QUAY WALLS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW; WALL FLOW;

HAIRPIN VORTEX PACKETS; MODERATE REYNOLDS NUMBERS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; PROPER ORTHOGONAL DECOMPOSITIONS; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; STREAM-WISE VELOCITIES; STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

FLOW STRUCTURE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR STRESS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 77957113925     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010000960     Document Type: Article

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