Wake stability features behind a square cylinder: Focus on small incidence angles

Journal of Fluids and Structures

Volumn 27, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 734-742

  Sheard, Gregory J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bluff body; Floquet stability analysis; Quasi periodic; Square cylinder; Subharmonic; Three dimensional transition

Indexed keywords

BLUFF BODY; FLOQUET STABILITY ANALYSIS; QUASI-PERIODIC; SQUARE CYLINDERS; SUBHARMONICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL TRANSITION;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; WAKES;

STABILITY;

EID: 79960589403     PISSN: 08899746     EISSN: 10958622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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