Intermittency of vorticity in a turbulent shear flow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2245-2247

  Shafi, H S ^a   Zhu, Y ^a   Antonia, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENCE; VORTICITY;

EID: 0030454309     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.868998     Document Type: Article

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