Transition threshold and the self-sustaining process

Fluid Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 77, Issue , 2005, Pages 85-106

  Waleffe, Fabian ^a,b,c   Wang, Jue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherent structures; Critical layers; Self sustaining process; Transition threshold; Wall bounded turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859849002     PISSN: 09265112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4049-0_5     Document Type: Article

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