Viscous tilting and production of vorticity in homogeneous turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1-4

  Holzner, M ^a   Guala, M ^b   Luthi B ^a   Liberzon, A ^c   Nikitin, N ^d   Kinzelbach, W ^a   Tsinober, A ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW;

HOMOGENEOUS TURBULENCE; PARTICLE TRACKING VELOCIMETRY; QUASI-ISOTROPIC; VISCOUS EFFECT; VORTEX STRETCHING; VORTICITY DYNAMICS; VORTICITY EQUATION; VORTICITY VECTORS;

VORTICITY;

EID: 77954501354     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3442477     Document Type: Article

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