Passive scalar mixing: Analytic study of time scale ratio, variance, and mix rate

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Ristorcelli, J R ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE;

PALINSTROPHY COEFFICIENT; PASSIVE SCALAR MIXING; POWER LAW DECAY; TIME SCALE RATIO;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE;

EID: 33746754669     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2214704     Document Type: Article

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