Görtler vortices: a backward-in-time approach to the receptivity problem

DOI10.1017/S0022112098008970zbMath0926.76038OpenAlexW2037039802MaRDI QIDQ4219860

Paolo Luchini, Alessandro Bottaro

Publication date: 10 November 1998

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112098008970

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numerical solutionexternal disturbancesadjoint of linearized boundary-layer equations

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