Asymmetric transport and non-Gaussian statistics of passive scalars in vortices in shear

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 576-594

  Del Castillo Negrete, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VORTEX FLOW;

ADVECTION DIFFUSION EQUATION; ASYMMETRIC TRANSPORT; CHAOTIC ADVECTION; LEVY FLIGHTS; MELKINOV METHOD; NON GAUSSIAN TRANSPORT; PASSIVE SCALARS; SEPARATRIX MAP MODEL;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 0032028975     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869585     Document Type: Article

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