Time averaging in turbulence settings may reveal an infinite hierarchy of length scales

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 781-807

  Fife, Paul ^a   Klewicki, Joseph ^b   Wei, Tie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b University of New Hampshire   (United States)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Couette flow; Multiscaling; Poiseuille flow; Turbulence; Turbulent boundary layer

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149169742     PISSN: 10780947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.2009.24.781     Document Type: Article

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