Upper bounds on energy dissipation in Couette-Ekman flow

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 255, Issue 4-6, 1999, Pages 277-286

  Hoffmann, Norbert P ^a   Vitanov, Nikolay K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Background flow method; Energy dissipation; Optimum theory of turbulence; Turbulent shear flows

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY;

APPLICATION AREA; BACKGROUND FIELD; BACKGROUND FLOW; INVERSE EKMAN NUMBERS; TURBULENT SHEAR FLOWS; TWO-COMPONENT; UPPER BOUND; VELOCITY FIELD;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 0347877226     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(99)00196-6     Document Type: Article

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