Velocity and vorticity in weakly compressible isotropic turbulence under longitudinal expansive straining

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 584, Issue , 2007, Pages 301-335

  Xanthos, Savvas ^a   Gong, Minwei ^a   Andrepoulos, Yiannis ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FLOW VELOCITY; KINETIC ENERGY; MACH NUMBER; PRESSURE GRADIENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRAIN RATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VORTICITY;

ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; LONGITUDINAL EXPANSIVE STRAINING; THREE DIMENSIONAL VELOCITY;

TURBULENCE;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FLOW VELOCITY; KINETIC ENERGY; MACH NUMBER; PRESSURE GRADIENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRAIN RATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBULENCE; VORTICITY;

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; FLOW VELOCITY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; TURBULENCE; VORTICITY;

EID: 34547687660     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002211200700674X     Document Type: Article

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