Boundary-layer transition at high free-stream disturbance levels – beyond Klebanoff modes

DOI10.1017/S0022112008003078zbMath1151.76496MaRDI QIDQ5302704

Adrian Sescu, Marvin E. Goldstein

Publication date: 8 January 2009

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects (76D10) Transition to turbulence (76F06)

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Evolution and instability of unsteady nonlinear streaks generated by free-stream vortical disturbances ⋮ Stability of zero-pressure-gradient boundary layer distorted by unsteady Klebanoff streaks ⋮ Distributed vortex receptivity of a swept-wing boundary layer. Part 1. Efficient excitation of CF modes ⋮ The pre-transitional Klebanoff modes and other boundary-layer disturbances induced by small-wavelength free-stream vorticity ⋮ The long range persistence of wakes behind a row of roughness elements ⋮ Combined effects of amplitude, frequency and bandwidth on wavepackets in laminar turbulent transition ⋮ Direct numerical simulations of transition in a compressor cascade: the influence of free-stream turbulence

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