Comparing the two-dimensional cascades of vorticity and a passive scalar

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 492, Issue , 2003, Pages 131-145

  Dubos, Thomas ^a   Babiano, Armando ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE;

TWO-DIMENSIONAL VORTICITY;

VORTEX FLOW;

FLUID FLOW; FLUID MECHANICS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; PASSIVE SCALAR; TURBULENCE; VORTICITY;

EID: 0142184854     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112003005585     Document Type: Article

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