Pair dispersion over an inertial range spanning many decades

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1052-1060

  Elliott Jr , Frank W ^a   Majda, Andrew J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION; INERTIA; PAIR; RANGE;

EID: 0029676599     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.868880     Document Type: Article

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