Self-similar turbulence evolution and the dissipation rate transport equation

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1-9

  Rubinstein, Robert ^a   Clark, Timothy T ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; SHEAR FLOW; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW;

DISSIPATION RATE TRANSPORT EQUATION; ENSTROPHY DESTRUCTION; SELF-SIMILAR TURBULENCE EVOLUTION; VORTEX STRETCHING;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

EQUATION; FLUID MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT; TURBULENCE;

EID: 27144434766     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2046707     Document Type: Article

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