Estimates of the errors incurred in various asymptotic representations of wave packets

DOI10.1017/S0022112082001943zbMath0494.76045MaRDI QIDQ3958144

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Publication date: 1982

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

zbMATH Keywords

onset of turbulenceasymptotic representations of isolated wave packetimpulsive point excitation of laminar boundary layer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Incompressible viscous fluids (76D99) Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects (76D10) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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