On the roughness instability of growing boundary layers
- 13 July 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Abstract
The streamwise vortex instability of boundary layers caused by wall roughness in the form of surface undulations is investigated. The instability is characterised by a roughness parameter needed for instability.This publication has 46 references indexed in Scilit:
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