A review of effects of initial and boundary conditions on turbulent

WSEAS Transactions on Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 257-275

  Abdel Rahman, Adel ^a  

^a BEIRUT ARAB UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Coherent structure; Jet initial conditions; Jet structure; Jets; Turbulent jets

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051622779     PISSN: 17905087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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