The universal structure of high-curvature regions of material lines in chaotic flows

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 622, Issue , 2009, Pages 167-175

  Leonard, A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; FLUID MECHANICS;

CURVATURE REGIONS; FINITE-TIME LYAPUNOV EXPONENT; MATERIAL LINES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PRINCIPAL AXES; STRAIN TENSOR; TANGENT VECTORS; UNIVERSAL STRUCTURES;

LYAPUNOV METHODS;

CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CURVATURE; FLOW STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL METHOD; VECTOR;

EID: 65649083790     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112008005132     Document Type: Article

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