Vanishing enstrophy dissipation in two-dimensional Navier-Stokes turbulence in the inviscid limit

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 559, Issue , 2006, Pages 107-116

  Tran, Chuong V ^a   Dritschel, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY;

BATCHELOR'S THEORY; PALINSTROPHY; VANISHING ENSTROPHY DISSIPATION;

TURBULENT FLOW;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VISCOSITY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 33746335656     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112006000577     Document Type: Article

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