What controls the decay of passive scalars in smooth flows?

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1-16

  Haynes, P H ^a   Vanneste, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DIFFUSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EXPONENTIAL DECAY; KRAICHNAN FLOW; PASSIVE SCALAR;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

CONTROL SYSTEM; DECAY; FLUID FLOW; PASSIVE SCALAR;

EID: 27144469239     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2033908     Document Type: Article

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