Multiple paths to subharmonic laminar breakdown in a boundary layer
- 5 February 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 64 (6) , 641-644
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.64.641
Abstract
Numerical simulations demonstrate that laminar breakdown in a boundary layer induced by the secondary instability of two-dimensional Tollmien-Schlichting waves to three-dimensional subharmonic disturbances need not take the conventional lambda vortex–high-shear layer path.Keywords
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