Testing Batchelor's similarity hypotheses for decaying two-dimensional turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Lindborg, Erik ^a   Vallgren, Andreas ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUIDS; PHYSICS;

ENSTROPHY DISSIPATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; INERTIAL SUBRANGE; INITIAL CONDITIONS; SPECTRAL RANGE; TWO DIMENSIONAL TURBULENCE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; WAVENUMBER SPECTRA;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 79251574687     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3488997     Document Type: Article

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