Alternative statistical-mechanical descriptions of decaying two-dimensional turbulence in terms of "patches" and "points"

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1937-1953

  Yin, Z ^a   Montgomery, D C ^a,b   Clercx, H J H ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW;

VORTICITY;

TURBULENT FLOW;

NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0042326219     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1578078     Document Type: Article

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