Alignment of tracer gradient vectors in 2D turbulence

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 146, Issue 1-4, 2000, Pages 246-260

  Klein, Patrice ^a,b   Hua, Bach Lien ^a,b   Lapeyre, Guillaume ^a,b  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

2D turbulence; Pressure Hessian; Tracer gradient vectors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039149434     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(00)00119-6     Document Type: Article

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