Inner/outer layer interactions in turbulent boundary layers: A refined measure for the large-scale amplitude modulation mechanism

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Bernardini, Matteo ^a   Pirozzoli, Sergio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

COMPRESSIBLE BOUNDARY LAYERS; LARGE SCALE MOTION; LAYER INTERACTION; MODERATE REYNOLDS NUMBERS; MODULATION COEFFICIENTS; NEAR-WALL TURBULENCE; STREAM-WISE VELOCITIES; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

EID: 79960013973     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3589345     Document Type: Article

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