The velocity distribution of barotropic turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2478-2488

  Bracco, Annalisa ^a   LaCasce, Joe ^b   Pasquero, Claudia ^a   Provenzale, Antonello ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STATISTICAL METHODS; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY; VORTEX FLOW;

BAROTROPIC TURBULENCE; INITIAL CONDITIONS; NON GAUSSIAN; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC APPROXIMATION; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; VELOCITY GRADIENT DISTRIBUTION; VORTEX COVER;

FLUIDS;

GEOPHYSICAL FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

BAROTROPIC MOTION; FLOW VELOCITY; GEOPHYSICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0034306801     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1288517     Document Type: Article

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