Distorted turbulence and secondary flow near right-angled plates

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 668, Issue , 2011, Pages 446-479

  Nagata, K ^a   Hunt, J C R ^b   Sakai, Y ^a   Wong, H ^c,d  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

turbulence theory; vortex dynamics

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SECONDARY FLOW; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS; GRID-GENERATED TURBULENCE; HOMOGENEOUS ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; RAPID DISTORTION THEORY; TURBULENCE THEORY; TURBULENT REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX DYNAMICS; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

SHEAR FLOW;

REYNOLDS NUMBER; SECONDARY FLOW; THEORETICAL STUDY; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 79951669721     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010004751     Document Type: Article

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