The curvature of material lines in a three-dimensional chaotic flow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1942-1952

  Hobbs, D M ^a   Muzzio, F J ^a  

^a the State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DROP BREAKUP; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLOW PATTERNS; MIXING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; STATISTICAL METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBULENT FLOW;

CHAOTIC FLOW; DUCT FLOW; FLOW GEOMETRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

LAMINAR FLOW;

EID: 0032133537     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869710     Document Type: Article

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