Schmidt number effects on turbulent transport with uniform mean scalar gradient

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 4178-4191

  Yeung, P K ^a   Xu, Shuyi ^a   Sreenivasan, K R ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VISCOUS FLOW;

SCHMIDT NUMBER;

TURBULENCE;

HOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0036953360     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1517298     Document Type: Article

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