Wave growth and spreading of a turbulent spot in plane Poiseuille flow

DOI10.1063/1.857512zbMath0684.76056OpenAlexW1993704084MaRDI QIDQ4734939

Dan S. Henningson

Publication date: 1989

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.857512

zbMATH Keywords

Orr-Sommerfeld equationkinematic wave theoryplane Poiseuille spots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Turbulence (76F99) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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