Quantifying microbubble clustering in turbulent flow from single-point measurements

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Calzavarini, Enrico ^a   Berg, Thomas H Van Den ^a   Toschi, Federico ^b,c   Lohse, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TIME SERIES; TURBULENT FLOW; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EULER EQUATIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EULERIAN-LAGRANGIAN; HOT WIRE MEASUREMENTS; KOLMOGOROV LENGTHS; PREFERENTIAL CONCENTRATION; SINGLE-POINT MEASUREMENT; SMALL-SCALE STRUCTURES; STATISTICAL SIGNATURES; TURBULENT CHANNELS; BUBBLE ACCUMULATION; EULERIAN-LAGRANGIAN METHOD; KOLMOGOROV-LENGTH SCALE; MICROBUBBLES;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TURBULENT FLOW;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EULER EQUATIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 43149090538     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2911036     Document Type: Conference Paper

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