On the large-scale structure and spectral dynamics of two-dimensional turbulence in a periodic channel

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Kramer, W ^a,c   Clercx, H J H ^a,b   van Heijst, G J F ^a,c  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEBYSHEV APPROXIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STATISTICAL METHODS; TURBULENCE; VORTICITY;

FOURIER-CHEBYSHEV PSEUDOSPECTRAL ALGORITHM; INTEGRAL-SCALE REYNOLDS NUMBER;

CHANNEL FLOW;

CHANNEL FLOW; CHEBYSHEV APPROXIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STATISTICAL METHODS; TURBULENCE; VORTICITY;

EID: 44649156422     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2919132     Document Type: Article

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