On the correlation between enstrophy and energy dissipation rate in a turbulent wake

Applied Scientific Research (The Hague)

Volumn 57, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 337-347

  Zhu, Y ^a   Antonia, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Correlation; Dissipation; Enstrophy; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; CORRELATION METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW;

ENSTROPHY REGION; VORTICITY FLUCTUATIONS;

WAKES;

EID: 0030315252     PISSN: 00036994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02506068     Document Type: Article

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