On displacement-thickness, wall-layer and mid-flow scales in turbulent boundary layers, and slugs of vorticity in channel and pipe flows

DOI10.1098/RSPA.1990.0034zbMath0701.76056OpenAlexW1989287383MaRDI QIDQ3479678

D. J. Doorly, Frank T. Smith, Alric P. Rothmayer

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1990.0034

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear Euler equations leading edge of a turbulent spot thickening of a turbulent boundary layer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Boundary element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M15) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10)

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