An experimental investigation on Lagrangian correlations of small-scale turbulence at low Reynolds number

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 574, Issue , 2007, Pages 405-427

  Guala, Michele ^a   Liberzon, Alexander ^a,b   Tsinober, Arkady ^c   Kinzelbach, Wolfgang ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CORRELATION METHODS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTICITY;

LAGRANGIAN CORRELATION; PARTICLE TRACKING VELOCIMETRY;

TURBULENCE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CORRELATION METHODS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTICITY;

CORRELATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTICITY;

PERU TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 33847010660     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112006004204     Document Type: Article

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