Studying Burgers' models to investigate the physical meaning of the alignments statistically observed in turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 735-742

  Andreotti, B ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE STATISTIQUE   (France)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODELLING; TURBULENCE; VORTICITY;

EID: 0030795002     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869228     Document Type: Article

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