Intermittency in passive scalar decay

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 172, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 103-110

  Celani, A ^a   Vincenzi, D ^b  

^a INSTITUT NON LINÉAIRE DE NICE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Intermittency; Passive scalar; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SHEAR FLOW; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INTERMITTENCY;

TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0037111925     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(02)00653-X     Document Type: Article

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