Tornado-like flows

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Yih, Chia Shun ^a   Yih, W Katherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTICITY;

HORIZONTAL FLOWS; TWO-FLUID MODEL; VERTICAL STRATIFICATION;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTICITY;

EID: 34547729611     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2742728     Document Type: Article

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