Attenuation of the wake of a sphere in an intense incident turbulence with large length scales

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1-9

  Amoura, Zouhir ^a   Roig, Véronique ^a   Risso, Frédéric ^a   Billet, Anne Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REYNOLDS NUMBER; STATISTICS; TURBULENCE; WAKES;

INCIDENT VELOCITY; ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; LARGE LENGTH-SCALE; MEAN VELOCITIES; SPHERE DIAMETER; STANDARD DEVIATION; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; TURBULENT EDDY;

SPHERES;

EID: 77955600943     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3425628     Document Type: Article

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