Lagrangian views on turbulent mixing of passive scalars

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1916, 2010, Pages 1561-1577

  Sreenivasan, Katepalli R ^a   Schumacher, Jörg ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Kraichnan model; Lagrangian turbulence; Passive scalar mixing

Indexed keywords

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MIXING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

DATA ANALYSIS; KRAICHNAN MODEL; LAGRANGIAN; LAGRANGIAN TURBULENCE; NAVIER-STOKES TURBULENCE; PASSIVE SCALARS; PASSIVE-SCALAR TURBULENCE; TURBULENT MIXING;

TURBULENCE;

EID: 77950957810     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0140     Document Type: Review

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