Renormalization-group analysis of turbulence

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 30, Issue , 1998, Pages 275-310

  Smith, Leslie M ^a,c   Woodruff, Stephen L ^b  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Eddy viscosity; Renormalization group theory; Renormalized perturbation theory; The expansion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000222145     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.30.1.275     Document Type: Article

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