Vorticity generation by instabilities of chaotic fluid flows

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 111, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 202-226

  Reyl, Charles ^a   Antonsen Jr , Thomas M ^a,b   Ott, Edward ^a,b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos; Fluid dynamics; Fractal; High Reynolds number turbulence; Hydrodynamic stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002046687     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(97)80012-7     Document Type: Article

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