Turbulent force as a diffusive field with vortical sources

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 11, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 627-635

  Wu, Jie Zhi ^a   Zhou, Ye ^b,c   Lu, Xi Yun ^a,d   Fan, Meng ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE SPACE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 0000806810     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869934     Document Type: Article

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