Conditional and unconditional acceleration statistics in turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3478-3489

  Sawford, B L ^a   Yeung, P K ^b   Borgas, M S ^a   Vedula, P ^b   La Porta, A ^c   Crawford, A M ^c   Bodenschatz, E ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

^c Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

TURBULENT TRANSPORT;

TURBULENCE;

ACCELERATION; FLUID FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; PARTICLE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0345330247     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1613647     Document Type: Article

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