Recent advancements toward the understanding of turbulent boundary layers

4th AIAA Theoretical Fluid Mechanics Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  George, William K ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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DIRECT MEASUREMENT; LOG-LAWS; NEW THEORY; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; WALL BOUNDED FLOWS;

FLUID MECHANICS;

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