Partition functions and equilibrium measures in two-dimensional and quasi-three-dimensional turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2656-2660

  Chorin, Alexandre J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; FUNCTIONS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VORTEX FLOW;

DISCRETIZATION; EULER EQUATIONS; PARTITION FUNCTIONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VORTEX STRETCHING;

TURBULENCE;

EULER FLOW; TURBULENCE; VORTICES;

EID: 0030268102     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869051     Document Type: Article

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