Local relaxation and maximum entropy in two-dimensional turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Servidio, S ^a   Wan, M ^b   Matthaeus, W H ^b   Carbone, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VORTEX FLOW;

COHERENT STRUCTURE; COHERENT VORTICES; CONTOUR TRACKING; ENTROPY PRINCIPLE; LOCAL RELAXATION; RELAXATION PRINCIPLE; TWO DIMENSIONAL TURBULENCE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL HYDRODYNAMICS;

ENTROPY;

EID: 79251590282     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3526760     Document Type: Article

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