On the structure and dynamics of sheared and rotating turbulence: Direct numerical simulation and wavelet-based coherent vortex extraction

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Jacobitz, Frank G ^a,b   Liechtenstein, Lukas ^b   Schneider, Kai ^b   Farge, Marie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; EXTRACTION; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION; FLOW SIMULATION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; ROTATIONAL FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW;

ANTIPARALLEL CONFIGURATION; COHERENT COMPONENTS; ROTATING TURBULENCE; SHEARED TURBULENCE; STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; TURBULENT SHEAR FLOWS; VORTICAL STRUCTURES;

ROTATION; TURBULENCE;

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; FLOW SIMULATION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; ROTATIONAL FLOW; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 43149102720     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2896284     Document Type: Conference Paper

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