Spreading of superfluid vorticity clouds in normal-fluid turbulence

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 668, Issue , 2011, Pages 58-75

  Kivotides, Demosthenes ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

quantum fluids; turbulent flows; vortex flows

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DAMPING; FRACTAL DIMENSION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTICITY;

CLASSICAL TURBULENCES; QUANTUM FLUIDS; SELF CONSISTENT MODELING; STRONGLY NONLINEAR; SUPERFLUID TURBULENCE; SUPERFLUID VORTEX; VISCOUS DISSIPATION; VORTICITY PATTERNS;

VORTEX FLOW;

CLOUD; DAMPING; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY;

EID: 79951680946     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010004659     Document Type: Article

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