The vortex merger rate in freely decaying, two-dimensional turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  LaCasce, H J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); DISPERSIONS; TURBULENCE;

COHERENT VORTICES; COLLISION CROSS SECTIONS; COLLISION TIME; DISPERSION RATE; INITIAL CONDITIONS; SCALING RELATIONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL TURBULENCE; VORTEX MERGER;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 51249120042     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2957020     Document Type: Article

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