Physical mechanism of the two-dimensional enstrophy cascade

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 21, 2003, Pages

  Chen, Shiyi ^a,c   Ecke, Robert E ^b   Eyink, Gregory L ^a,d   Wang, Xin ^a   Xiao, Zuoli ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TURBULENCE; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; VORTEX FLOW;

EDDY-VISCOSITY APPROXIMATION; INERTIAL-RANGE VORTICITY GRADIENT; TURBULENT VORTICITY TRANSPORT VECTOR; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ENSTROPY CASCADE;

FLUID MECHANICS;

EID: 0346421122     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.214501     Document Type: Article

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