Intermittency in passive scalar turbulence under the uniform mean scalar gradient

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Watanabe, Takeshi ^a   Gotoh, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRADIENT METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SCALAR GRADIENT; SCALAR INJECTION SCHEME; SCALAR TURBULENCE;

TURBULENCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRADIENT METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STATISTICAL METHODS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 33744799406     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2206810     Document Type: Article

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