Spontaneous generation of vortex crystals from forced two-dimensional homogeneous turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Jiménez, Javier ^a,b   Guegan, Alan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; TRANSITION FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

HOMOGENEOUS TURBULENCE; LARGE-SCALE FORCING; MULTISCALE TURBULENCE; VORTEX CRYSTALS;

TURBULENT FLOW;

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; TRANSITION FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 35348890976     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2757713     Document Type: Article

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