Correlations of vorticity and material line elements with strain in decaying turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2203-2214

  Huang, Mei Jiau ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY; ROTATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRAIN; TENSORS; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

BURGERS VORTEX MODEL; DECAYING TURBULENCE; EULERIAN METHODS; MATERIAL LINE ELEMENTS; NONLINEAR STRETCHING;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

STRAIN; TURBULENCE; VORTICITY;

EID: 0030209402     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.868993     Document Type: Article

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