A study of properties of vortex stretching and enstrophy generation in numerical and laboratory turbulence

Fluid Dynamics Research

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 477-494

  Tsinober, A ^a   Shtilman, L ^a   Vaisburd, H ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FLUID DYNAMICS; STRAIN; TENSORS; TURBULENCE; VECTORS; VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW;

ENSTROPHY; FLOW FIELD; VORTEX STRETCHING;

TURBULENT FLOW;

NON-GAUSSIAN RESPONSE; TURBULENCE; VORTEX STRETCHING;

NON-GAUSSIAN; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; VORTEX STRETCHING; VORTICES;

EID: 0031420459     PISSN: 01695983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5983(97)00022-1     Document Type: Article

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