Algebraic probability density tails in decaying isotropic two-dimensional turbulence

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 313, Issue , 1996, Pages 223-240

  Jiménez, Javier ^a  

^a School of Aeronautical Engineering   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICS; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW;

ALGEBRAIC PROBABILITY DENSITY TAILS; CAUCHY DISTRIBUTION; ENERGY ENSTROPHY RATIO; GAUSSIAN VORTICITY DISTRIBUTION; ONE POINT STATISTICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL DECAYING ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE;

TURBULENCE;

ISOTROPIC; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; PROBABILITY DENSITY; TURBULENCE; VORTICES;

EID: 0030111537     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112096002194     Document Type: Article

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