Dynamics of the orientation of active and passive scalars in two-dimensional turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 251-264

  Lapeyre, G ^a,b   Hua, B L ^a,b   Klein, P ^a,b  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b Laboratoire de M orologie Dynamique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PASSIVE SCALAR; TURBULENCE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; VORTICITY;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; TENSORS; VORTEX FLOW;

EULER EQUATIONS; PASSIVE SCALARS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

EID: 0034746277     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1324705     Document Type: Article

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