Scalar imaging velocimetry measurements of the velocity gradient tensor field m turbulent flows. II. Experimental results

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1883-1906

  Su, Lester K ^a   Dahm, Werner J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; KINEMATICS; PRESSURE; PROBABILITY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRAIN RATE; TENSORS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TURBULENT FLOW;

FOUR DIMENSIONAL; KINETIC ENERGY; LINEAR CENTRAL DIFFERENCE OPERATORS; SCALAR IMAGING VELOCIMETRY; VECTOR GRADIENT TENSOR FIELD;

VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCIMETRY;

EID: 0030176481     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.868970     Document Type: Article

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