On the structure and dynamics of sheared and rotating turbulence: Anisotropy properties and geometrical scale-dependent statistics

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Jacobitz, Frank G ^a,b   Schneider, Kai ^b,c   Bos, Wouter J T ^d   Farge, Marie ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b Ecole Centrale Marseille   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE PROVENCE   (France)

^d ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^e ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTICITY;

ANISOTROPY PROPERTY; ANISOTROPY TENSORS; HOMOGENEOUS TURBULENCE; JOINT PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ROTATING TURBULENCE; STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS; TURBULENCE PRODUCTIONS; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 77956635050     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3457167     Document Type: Article

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