Statistical mechanics with three-dimensional particle tracking velocimetry experiments in the study of anomalous dispersion. I. Theory

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 75-80

  Cushman, John H ^a   Moroni, Monica ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TENSORS; VECTORS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ANOMALOUS DISPERSIONS; EULERIAN MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

DISPERSION MODELING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 0034745733     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1328075     Document Type: Article

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