Batchelor's spectrum from an axisymmetric strained scalar field

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Higgins, Keith ^a   Ooi, Andrew ^a   Chong, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT CONVECTION; VECTORS; VISCOSITY;

ADVECTION DIFFUSION EQUATION; BATCHELOR'S SPECTRUM; PASSIVE SCALAR TRANSPORT; SCALAR FIELD; SCHMIDT NUMBER;

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

DIFFUSION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT CONVECTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VECTORS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 33745635325     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2213643     Document Type: Article

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