Rank-Ordered Multifractal Analysis (ROMA) of probability distributions in fluid turbulence

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 261-268

  Wu, C C ^a   Chang, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 79954533037     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-18-261-2011     Document Type: Article

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