Scale dependence of the coarse-grained velocity derivative tensor: Influence of large-scale shear on small-scale turbulence

Journal of Turbulence

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-11

  Naso, Aurore ^a,b,c   Chertkov, Michael ^c   Pumir, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow topology; Phenomenological models; Shear turbulence

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR FLOW; TENSORS; TOPOLOGY; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

MODEL; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 33744498376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14685248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14685240600754563     Document Type: Article

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