Dynamics of the velocity gradient tensor invariants in isotropic turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2336-2346

  Martín, Jesús ^a   Ooi, Andrew ^b   Chong, M S ^b   Soria, Julio ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; KINETIC ENERGY; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRAIN RATE; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY; VORTEX FLOW;

ANISOTROPIC PRESSURE HESSIAN; CONDITIONAL MEAN TRAJECTORY; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; KINETIC ENERGY DISSIPATION; LINEAR MEAN SQUARE ESTIMATION; MIXING LAYER FLOW; VELOCITY GRADIENT; VISCOUS DIFFUSION; VORTICITY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0032159683     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869752     Document Type: Article

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