Persistence problem in two-dimensional fluid turbulence

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Perlekar, Prasad ^a   Ray, Samriddhi Sankar ^b,c   Mitra, Dhrubaditya ^d   Pandit, Rahul ^b,e  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^d NORDITA   (Denmark)

^e JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EKMAN FRICTION; EULERIAN; EXPONENTIAL TAIL; FLUID TURBULENCE; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; LAGRANGIAN MEASUREMENTS; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLES; POWER-LAW TAIL;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TURBULENCE;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 79551626146     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.054501     Document Type: Article

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