Hyperviscosity, galerkin truncation, and bottlenecks in turbulence

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 14, 2008, Pages

  Frisch, Uriel ^a   Kurien, Susan ^b   Pandit, Rahul ^c   Pauls, Walter ^d   Ray, Samriddhi Sankar ^c   Wirth, Achim ^e   Zhu, Jian Zhou ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^e LEGI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE-RANGE; FOURIER MODES; GALERKIN TRUNCATION; HIGH POWERS; HYDRODYNAMICAL EQUATIONS; HYPERVISCOSITY; LAPLACIAN; THERMALIZATION; VISCOUS DYNAMICS; WAVE NUMBERS;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 53449092653     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.144501     Document Type: Article

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