Vortex cores, strain cells, and filaments in quasigeostrophic turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Petersen, Mark R ^a,b   Julien, Keith ^a   Weiss, Jeffrey B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow simulation; Gaussian distribution; Turbulence; Vortices

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STRAIN; VORTEX FLOW;

FLOW SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC TURBULENCE; STRAIN CELLS; VORTEX CORES;

TURBULENCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STRAIN; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 33644609593     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2166452     Document Type: Article

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