Diffusing passive tracers in random incompressible flows: Statistical topography aspects

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 797-836

  Klyatskin, V I ^a,b   Woyczynski, W A ^c   Gurarie, D ^c  

^a OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b IL ICHEV PACIFIC OCEANOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation function; Correlation splitting; Delta correlated approximation; Diffusion; Diffusion approximation; Furutsu Novikov formula; Long normal probability law; Markov process; Mean field; Random topography

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030210073     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02179658     Document Type: Article

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