Roll-up of vorticity in adverse-pressure-gradient boundary layers

DOI10.1017/S0022112087002659zbMath0634.76039MaRDI QIDQ3773577

Stewart J. Leib, Paul A. Durbin, Marvin E. Goldstein

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Numerical solutionsevolution of instability wavesrobust stabilization conditionsunsteady, nonlinear critical-layer equationweak adverse-pressure-gradient boundary layer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects (76D10) Waves for incompressible viscous fluids (76D33) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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