Publication Date:
2011-08-19
Description:
Numerical simulations demonstrate that laminar breakdown in a boundary layer induced by the secondary instability of two-dimensional Tollmien-Schlichting waves to three-dimensional subharmonic disturbancews need not take the conventional lambda vortex/high-shear layer path.
Keywords:
FLUID MECHANICS AND HEAT TRANSFER
Type:
Physical Review Letters (ISSN 0031-9007); 64; 641-644
Format:
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