Does the flatness of the velocity derivative blow up at a finite Reynolds number?

Pramana - Journal of Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 6 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 939-945

  Sreenivasan, K R ^a   Bershadskii, A ^a,b  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b The International Coalition for Agunah Rights   (Israel)

Author keywords

Derivative flatness; High Reynolds number turbulence; Navler Stokes singularities

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; GRAPH THEORY; HYDRODYNAMICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TURBULENCE;

DERIVATIVE FLATNESS; HIGH-REYNOLDS-NUMBER TURBULENCE; HYDRODYNAMIC TURBULENCE; NAVIER-STOKES SIGULARITIES;

REYNOLDS NUMBER;

EID: 21544467577     PISSN: 03044289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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