A numerical study of the alpha model for two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulent flows

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Mininni, Pablo D ^a   Montgomery, David C ^b   Pouquet, Annick G ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MAGNETIC FLUIDS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRANDTL NUMBER; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STATISTICAL METHODS; TURBULENCE; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

LAGRANGIAN-AVERAGED FRAMEWORK; MAGNETOFLUID TURBULENCE; PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHODS; VELOCITY FIELDS;

TURBULENT FLOW;

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 15844373348     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1863260     Document Type: Article

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