Intermittency trends and Lagrangian evolution of non-Gaussian statistics in turbulent flow and scalar transport

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 558, Issue , 2006, Pages 133-142

  Li, Yi ^a   Meneveau, Charles ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY; VORTEX FLOW;

LAGRANGIAN EVOLUTION; STATISTICALLY STEADY-STATE LEVELS; TRANSVERSE VELOCITY INCREMENTS;

TURBULENT FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VISCOSITY; VORTEX FLOW;

LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 33745726859     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002211200600005X     Document Type: Article

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