Dissipation-scale fluctuations and mixing transition in turbulent flows

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 606, Issue , 2008, Pages 325-337

  Yakhot, Victor ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DIFFUSION; MIXING; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

DIFFUSION TIME; MIXING TIME; MIXING TRANSITIONS; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; MOLECULAR-LEVEL MIXING; NUMERICAL DATA; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; SCALAR DISSIPATION;

REACTION RATES;

ADVECTION; DISSIPATION; MIXING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT DIFFUSION; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 45449087942     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112008001791     Document Type: Article

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