Spectrally condensed turbulence in thin layers

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1-10

  Xia, H ^a   Shats, M ^a   Falkovich, G ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW;

COHERENT COMPONENTS; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; INVERSE ENERGY CASCADES; SPECTRAL CONDENSATION; STATISTICAL MOMENTS; TURBULENCE STATISTICS; TURBULENT FLUCTUATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) TURBULENCE;

TURBULENCE;

EID: 76249091582     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3275861     Document Type: Article

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