Strain, vortices, and the enstrophy inertial range in two-dimensional turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2991-3004

  Oetzel, Kenneth G ^a   Vallis, Geoffrey K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRAIN; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

ENSTROPHY FLUX; ENSTROPHY INERTIAL RANGE; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

TURBULENCE;

STRAIN; TURBULENCE; VORTEX;

ENSTROPHY INERTIAL RANGE; STRAIN; TURBULENCE; VORTICES;

EID: 0031259007     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869410     Document Type: Article

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