Calculation of velocity structure functions for vortex models of isotropic turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3072-3084

  Saffman, P G ^a   Pullin, D I ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW;

LUNDGREN FORMULA; STRETCHED VORTEX MODELS; TOWNSEND MODEL; VELOCITY STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0030288458     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869081     Document Type: Article

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