Self-similarity of decaying two-dimensional turbulence

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 326, Issue , 1996, Pages 357-372

  Bartello, Peter ^a   Warn, Tom ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW;

BATCHELOR SIMILARITY HYPOTHESIS; DECAYING TURBULENCE; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION;

TURBULENCE;

EID: 0030284417     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002211209600835X     Document Type: Article

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