Secondary instability in forced wavelength Görtler vortices

DOI10.1063/1.1941367zbMath1187.76360MaRDI QIDQ3555166

S. H. Winoto, H. Mitsudharmadi, D. A. Shah

Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1941367

zbMATH Keywords

vortices; boundary layer turbulence; flow instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76-XX: Fluid mechanics

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