Decay of passive scalars under the action of single scale smooth velocity fields in bounded two-dimensional domains: From non-self-similar probability distribution functions to self-similar eigenmodes

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 056302/1-056302/11

  Sukhatme, Jai ^a   Pierrehumbert, Raymond T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION OPERATORS; FINITE TIME LYAPUNOV EXPONENTS (FTLE); NONLINEAR FUNCTION; VELOCITY FIELDS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CHAOS THEORY;

ARTICLE;

EID: 41349086027     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.66.056302     Document Type: Article

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