Universality of local dissipation scales in buoyancy-driven turbulence

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Zhou, Quan ^a,b   Xia, Ke Qing ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; GAUSSIANS; HOMOGENEOUS AND ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; INHOMOGENEITIES; RAYLEIGH; SCALE VELOCITY; TURBULENT INTENSITIES; TURBULENT THERMAL CONVECTION;

BUOYANCY; HEAT CONVECTION; TURBULENCE;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 77950282074     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.124301     Document Type: Article

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