Representing anisotropy of two-point second-order turbulence velocity correlations using structure tensors

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Bhattacharya, Amitabh ^a   Kassinos, Stavros C ^b   Moser, Robert D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); IMAGE PROCESSING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE;

HOMOGENEOUS TURBULENCE; LINEARLY INDEPENDENTS; NUMBER OF DEGREES OF FREEDOM; STRUCTURE TENSORS; TURBULENCE VELOCITY; TURBULENT VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS; VECTOR STREAM FUNCTIONS; VELOCITY CORRELATIONS;

TENSORS;

EID: 55849112960     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3005818     Document Type: Conference Paper

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