On the small scale structure of simple shear flow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 662-673

  Garg, Sandeep ^a   Warhaft, Z ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HEAT LOSSES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND TUNNELS;

SKEWNESS STRUCTURE FUNCTION; SMALL SCALE STRUCTURE; THIRD ORDER TRANSVERSE STRUCTURE FUNCTION;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 0032026427     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869592     Document Type: Article

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