A wavelet-packet census algorithm for calculating vortex statistics

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1988-1999

  Siegel, Andrew ^a   Weiss, Jeffrey B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STATISTICS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

COMPRESSION PROPERTY; DECOMPOSITION ALGORITHM; GLOBAL DECOMPOSITION; VORTEX STRUCTURE; VORTICITY FIELD; WAVELET PACKET CENSUS ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS;

NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; SIMULATION-NUMERICAL; VORTEX FLOW; WAVES;

EID: 0031194884     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869318     Document Type: Article

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