Small scale velocity jumps in shear turbulence

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Staicu, Adrian ^a   Van De Water, Willem ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY;

HOT-WIRE VELOCITY SENSOR; SHEAR DIRECTION; SHEAR RATE; SHEAR TURBULENCE; TAYLOR MICROSCALE REYNOLDS NUMBER;

TURBULENCE;

EID: 0037424203     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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