The structure of the vortices in freely decaying two-dimensional turbulence

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 313, Issue , 1996, Pages 209-222

  Jiménez, Javier ^a   Moffatt, H K ^b   Vasco, Carlos ^a  

^a School of Aeronautical Engineering   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRAIN; TURBULENCE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; VORTICES;

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RHEOLOGY; STRAIN; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY;

ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION; CORE VORTICITY DISTRIBUTION; PERTURBATION EXPANSION; TWO DIMENSIONAL TURBULENCE; VORTEX STRUCTURE;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 0030111539     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112096002182     Document Type: Article

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