Conditional Statistics in Turbulent Scalar Mixing and Reaction

AIChE Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1149-1152

  Jaberi, F A ^a   Miller, R S ^a,b   Givi, P ^a  

^a State Univ of New York at Buffalo ^*  (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXING; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; TURBULENT FLOW;

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LINEAR CONDITIONAL DIFFUSION; MIXTURE FRACTION; TURBULENT SCALAR MIXING;

TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0030111714     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690420426     Document Type: Article

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