Turbulent flow in pipes and channels as cross-stream "inverse cascades" of vorticity

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Eyink, Gregory L ^a,b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW;

INTENSITY FUNCTIONS; PRESSURE-DRIVEN; QUANTIZED VORTEX; SUPERFLUID TURBULENCE; TURBULENT VORTICITY; VISCOUS DIFFUSION; VISCOUS SUBLAYER; VORTICITY TRANSPORTS;

VORTICITY;

EID: 58249085992     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3013635     Document Type: Article

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