Structures and structure functions in the inertial range of turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1400-1415

  Boratav, Oluş N ^a   Pelz, Richard B ^b  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURVE FITTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

ENTROPY-DOMINATED STRUCTURES; INERTIAL RANGE; STRAIN DOMINATED STRUCTURES; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS;

TURBULENCE;

FLOW; SIMULATION-NUMERICAL; STRUCTURES; TURBULENCE;

FLOW MODELLING; INERTIAL RANGE; KOLMOGOROV; STRUCTURES; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0031142001     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869253     Document Type: Article

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