Spatially correlated and inhomogeneous random advection

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 822-834

  Ngan, K ^a,b   Pierrehumbert, R T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; TRACER;

EID: 0034045364     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870338     Document Type: Article

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