Conditional statistics for passive-scalar mixing in a confined rectangular turbulent jet

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Feng, H ^a   Olsen, M G ^a   Fox, R O ^a   Hill, J C ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FLUORESCENCE; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICS; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

LIQUID-PHASE RECTANGULAR JET; STREAMWISE; TRANSVERSE CONDITIONAL VELOCITIES;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUORESCENCE; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICS; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 34250009707     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2718580     Document Type: Article

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