Flatness of tracer density profile produced by a point source in turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3546-3557

  Gleeson, James P ^a   Pullin, D I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FUNCTIONS; TURBULENT FLOW;

TRACER DENSITY;

TURBULENCE;

DISPERSION; TRACER; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0344036317     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1616558     Document Type: Article

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