The relationship between the velocity skewness and the amplitude modulation of the small scale by the large scale in turbulent boundary layers

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Mathis, Romain ^a   Marusic, Ivan ^a   Hutchins, Nicholas ^a   Sreenivasan, K R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

HILBERT TRANSFORM; LARGE SCALE MOTION; SMALL SCALE; SMALL-SCALE STRUCTURES; STREAM-WISE VELOCITIES; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; VELOCITY SKEWNESS; WALL-BOUNDED TURBULENT FLOWS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

EID: 84855255571     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3671738     Document Type: Article

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