Short circuits in the Corrsin-Obukhov cascade

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 284-289

  Villermaux, Emmanuel ^a   Innocenti, Claudia ^a   Duplat, Jérôme ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; KINETIC THEORY; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEET METAL; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRETCHING; TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY;

CORRSIN-OBUKHOV CASCADE; SUSTAINED TURBULENT MEDIUM;

TURBULENT FLOW;

CASCADE; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0034745738     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1324006     Document Type: Article

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