Numerical study of the decay of enstrophy in a two-dimensional Navier-Stokes fluid in the limit of very small viscosities

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Dmitruk, Pablo ^a   Montgomery, David C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRAPOLATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; TURBULENCE; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VISCOSITY; VORTEX FLOW;

ENSTROPHY DECAY; PSEUDOSPECTRAL SIMULATIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL NAVIER-STOKES TURBULENCE; VORTICITY DECAY;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 15844372625     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1864134     Document Type: Article

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