Peripheral mixing of passive scalar at small Reynolds number

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 624, Issue , 2009, Pages 151-158

  Boffetta, G ^a,b   De Lillo, F ^a   Mazzino, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXING;

COUETTE CHANNEL; ENVIRONMENTAL DISPERSIONS; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; MICRO FLUIDIC APPLICATIONS; PASSIVE SCALARS; PERIPHERAL REGIONS; SCALAR CONCENTRATION; SYNTHETIC FLOW;

REYNOLDS NUMBER;

CHANNEL FLOW; COUETTE FLOW; FLUID DYNAMICS; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 65649148675     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009006004     Document Type: Article

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