Turbulence, similarity scaling and vortex geometry in the wake of a towed sphere in a stably stratified fluid

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 314, Issue , 1996, Pages 53-103

  Spedding, G R ^a   Browand, F K ^a   Fincham, A M ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRATIFIED FLOW; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BUOYANCY; DIFFUSION; GEOMETRY; GEOPHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPHERES; STATISTICAL METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW;

FROUDE NUMBER; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTIONS; STRATIFIED FLUID; UNSTRATIFIED WAKES;

WAKES;

EID: 0030131213     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112096000237     Document Type: Article

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