Intermittency feature of shear stress fluctuation in high-Reynolds-number turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3017-3025

  Tsuji, Yoshiyuki ^a   Dhruva, Brindesh ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; ENERGY DISSIPATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR STRESS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TURBULENT FLOW; VISCOSITY; VORTEX FLOW;

BURGERS' VORTEX; ENERGY SPECTRUM; INTERMITTENCY EXPONENTS; KOLMOGOROV SCALE; SCALING EXPONENTS; TAYLOR MICROSCALE;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

EID: 0032606212     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870160     Document Type: Article

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