Nonuniversal velocity probability densities in two-dimensional turbulence: The effect of large-scale dissipation

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Tsang, Yue Kin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); TURBULENCE; VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY;

AXISYMMETRIC VORTEX; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; FORCED TWO-DIMENSIONAL TURBULENCE; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; RELATIVE POSITIONS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; TWO DIMENSIONAL TURBULENCE; VELOCITY STATISTICS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 79251539601     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3504377     Document Type: Article

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