On the evolution of material lines and vorticity in homogeneous turbulence

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 533, Issue , 2005, Pages 339-359

  Guala, Michele ^a   Lüthi, Beat ^a   Liberzon, Alexander ^a   Tsinober, Arkady ^b   Kinzelbach, Wolfgang ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); STRAIN; TRAJECTORIES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY;

ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; MATERIAL LINES; PARTICLE-TRACKING VELOCIMETRY; VORTICITY;

TURBULENCE;

TURBULENT FLOW;

PERU TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 22144484877     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112005004362     Document Type: Article

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