About Boussinesq's turbulent viscosity hypothesis: historical remarks and a direct evaluation of its validity

Comptes Rendus - Mecanique

Volumn 335, Issue 9-10, 2007, Pages 617-627

  Schmitt, François G ^a  

^a Laboratoire d Océanologie et de Géosciences   (France)

Author keywords

Constitutive equation; Fluid Mechanics; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; KINETIC THEORY; STRAIN; TENSORS; TURBULENT FLOW; VISCOSITY;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; EDDY; FLUID MECHANICS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MODELING; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VISCOSITY;

EID: 35448951369     PISSN: 16310721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crme.2007.08.004     Document Type: Short Survey

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