Rare backflow and extreme wall-normal velocity fluctuations in near-wall turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Lenaers, Peter ^a   Li, Qiang ^a   Brethouwer, Geert ^a   Schlatter, Philipp ^a   Örlü, Ramis ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CHANNEL FLOW; PROBABILITY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW; WALL FLOW;

DIFFERENT RESOLUTIONS; JOINT PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; LARGE SCALE STRUCTURES; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; STREAM-WISE VELOCITIES; STREAMWISE DIRECTIONS; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; TURBULENT CHANNEL FLOWS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 84859308655     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3696304     Document Type: Article

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