Why we need experiments at high Reynolds numbers

Fluid Dynamics Research

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Warhaft, Zellman ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPLEX TURBULENT FLOWS; HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER; INERTIAL PARTICLES; INTERMITTENCY; LAGRANGIAN EXPERIMENT;

EXPERIMENTS; TURBULENCE;

REYNOLDS NUMBER;

EID: 66149146318     PISSN: 01695983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0169-5983/41/2/021401     Document Type: Article

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