Fluid acceleration in the bulk of turbulent dilute polymer solutions

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Crawford, Alice M ^a,d   Mordant, Nicolas ^a,b,e   Xu, Haitao ^b,c   Bodenschatz, Eberhard ^a,b,c  

^a Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

^b International Collaboration for Turbulence Research   (Switzerland)

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

^d CNRS ^*  (United States)

^e ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

AUTOCORRELATION TIME; DILUTE POLYMER SOLUTIONS; EFFECTIVE VISCOSITY; FLUID ACCELERATIONS; LAGRANGIAN ACCELERATION; OPTICAL TRACKING SYSTEMS; POLYMER CONCENTRATIONS; VISCOUS DISSIPATION;

ACCELERATION;

EID: 59249086630     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/12/123015     Document Type: Article

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